The Department of Health (DOH), in partnership with the Caloocan City Government and other organizations, launched a health ...

Consumption, phthisis, the white plague—a killer by any other name, tuberculosis (TB) has stalked humanity since at least the ...

World TB Day is March 24. We bet you thought tuberculosis or TB was a disease of the past. Guess what, it’s not. Except for during the COVID-19 pandemic, TB is the world’s biggest infectious ki ...

Masesi Ndlovu has been living with TB for two years and relapsed recently due to smoking. Read more about her story here.

The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm on a potential surge in tuberculosis cases due to recent USAID funding ...

Lucknow: Pradeep Gangwar, deputy nursing superintendent at KGMU, on Monday adopted 51 TB patients at Cantt's Combined Military Hospital, furthering the "TB-Free Lucknow" initiative. Under this ...

On International Women’s Day (8 March), that is the bold call for action for all women and girls worldwide. As we mark the 30th year of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the world is ...

An outbreak of tuberculosis, or TB—a lung disease that is often accompanied by a hacking cough—began in January 2024 in ...

In May 2022, the General Assembly adopted A/RES/76/265 proclaiming 1 March as World Seagrass Day. The resolution highlights the urgent need to raise awareness at all levels and to promote and ...

Each year, we recognise World TB Day on March 24. This annual event commemorates the day, in 1882, when Dr. Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus (bacteria) ...

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