News about 'stigma'

Yesterday, the US National Public Radio posted online two insightful pieces on tuberculosis. What It Takes To Cure Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treating The ‘Body And Soul’ In A Russian TB Prison Please check it out and pass along.

World TB Day is celebrated on March 24 and there is a lot going on during this week and next to highlight the continued problem of TB in the world and the solutions to address the problem. Below is a list of publications, news items, events, and links related to TB and World TB Day 2013. EVENTS...

This week we highlight an interview with Jeannine Uwimana, a public health specialist from the University of the Western Cape and TB/HIV Care Association in South Africa. She discusses her work in developing models for community-based programs to enhance TB and HIV collaborative activities.

Photo: David Rochkind On World TB Day March 24, there will be a Congressional Briefing on multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) where David Rochkind, the award winning photographer and Pulitzer Center grantee, will present his reporting and photography on his exploration into the MDR-TB crisis in...

This article originally appeared in the Hindustan Times . To read more about the stigma that women TB patients in India can face, please click here . Indian women TB patients can face stigma or even violence. Photo: John-Michael Maas / Darby Communications Eight months into her marriage, Rose...

This story was published on NDTV.com http://origin-netmg.ndtv.com/article/india/the-outcasts-of-tb-tuberculosis-36625 It may be curable but Tuberculosis (TB) remains a stigma in our country especially for women. Over a lakh Indian women are thrown out of their homes each year because they have TB...

Dr. Stewart Cole Stewart Cole helped create the Global Health Institute in 2007. Located at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), will use cutting-edge techniques to seek solutions to tuberculosis, a growing threat worldwide. Dr Cole’s work on tuberculosis, leprosy, AIDS, gas...

FT.com For World TB Day, the Financial Times’ Andrew Jack interviewed various members of the TB community to get their take on a range of topics: Paul Stoffels, head of R&D at Johnson & Johnson , explains why drugs to cope with tuberculosis have been slow to emerge from the pipelines of the...

Norma Muñoz Former MDR-TB Patient This video appeared on the Washington Post’s website . Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course of medical treatment. What’s worse, many say, is being ostracized by friends and neighbors who fear the dreaded disease.