Harnessing Technology To Improve Tuberculosis Outcomes

Dr. Phathokuhle Zondi, Clinical Lead: Unu Health Few realise the extent of the global burden of tuberculosis (TB) or know how many people still succumb to this disease every year. The Centres for Disease Control in the United States estimates that two billion people – a quarter of the world’s population – may be infected […]

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TB – It’s Not Over Yet, Even Though It Should Be

By Dr Allan Pamba, Executive Vice President, Diagnostics, Africa at Roche Diagnostics Over many centuries, tuberculosis (TB) has travelled alongside humanity. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) is thought to have been around for millions of years and has had many names. In ancient Greece, it was called “phthisis”; in the 1700s, the “White Plague” and in the […]

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