TB prevention and management post-COVID-19 – how to protect the vulnerable

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Prakash Tyagi, Founder-Director, GRAVIS Hospital; Executive Director, GRAVIS Every day, about 4,400 people worldwide die from Tuberculosis (TB) and about 30,000 people become ill from this disease, which is both preventable and curable. Clearly, TB continues to be a […]

We must use lessons learned from tackling COVID to fight tuberculosis

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Patricia Monthe, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, MEDx eHealthcenter Tuberculosis was responsible for 1.5 millions deaths in 2020, despite being curable and preventable. Global progress in tackling the infectious disease has been reversed during the COVID-19 outbreak. We […]

The multidisciplinary team facing the multidrug resistant form of Tuberculosis in the state of Amazonas (Brazil)

This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Ms. Camila Fonseca Carneiro, a third-year medical student at the State University of Amazonas, Amazonia, Brazil. She is affiliated to the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly to the writer and do not […]

We can end TB right now. Here’s how

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Paul Stoffels, Vice Chair of the Executive Committee and Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & Johnson In 2014, the world experienced the first-ever major Ebola epidemic. Over the following two years, nearly 30,000 Ebola cases were reported. More than 11,000 […]