Time to end TB
SHE sits before me, a frail woman of 28, pregnant for the fourth time. Her chest X-ray before treatment shows severe lung disease, and further testing reveals she harbours drug-resistant…
SHE sits before me, a frail woman of 28, pregnant for the fourth time. Her chest X-ray before treatment shows severe lung disease, and further testing reveals she harbours drug-resistant…
One of the lessons of the Ebola epidemic is the need to improve the African countries’ public health services, which have suffered the consequences of decades of neglect. Africa needs…
LAST month, tuberculosis-inflicted countries celebrated World Tuberculosis (TB) Day. In Pakistan, it was observed enthusiastically with seminars, talk shows, awareness walks and press releases. Pakistan has a plethora of infectious…
LAST month, tuberculosis-inflicted countries celebrated World Tuberculosis (TB) Day. In Pakistan, it was observed enthusiastically with seminars, talk shows, awareness walks and press releases. Pakistan has a plethora of infectious…
PAKISTAN now has not only the fifth largest population in the world but it also bears a very heavy burden of disease. Also, negative determinants of health or risks to…
THE human body consists of trillions of individually living cells that breathe, fight, attack, die, rejuvenate, and replenish. The human cell is a world in itself, with a nucleus housing…
Tuberculosis (TB) has been claiming human lives throughout history, starting with records of human deaths dating back to over 9,000 years ago. As its killing spree peaked in most of…
The world’s borders are in flux: mass migration has been brought on by an unrelenting war and a general discontent at one’s existing conditions. These factors – compounded by the…