WHO World TB Day 2025: Online Talk Show
The World Health Organization (WHO) is organizing a special Talk Show to commemorate World TB...
Events
Find upcoming events from around the world that are related to TB and the social sciences.
A broader knowledge base for better guidance on new TB treatment regiments
The WHO has released a first-of-its-kind guidance on how to generate evidence on novel TB...
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Guidance on Evidence Generation on New Regimens for Tuberculosis Treatment
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a Guidance on evidence generation (GEG) on new regimens...
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The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History
The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its...
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An Epidemic of Drug Resistance: Tuberculosis in the Twenty-First Century
With an estimated two billion people being carriers of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), the gains...
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Ecological-level factors associated with tuberculosis incidence and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Globally, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious cause of morbidity and mortality, with the risk...
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Health worker experiences of implementing TB infection prevention and control: A qualitative evidence synthesis to inform implementation recommendations
Implementation of TB infection prevention and control (IPC) measures in health facilities is frequently inadequate,...
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Interplay between tuberculosis, mental illness, and treatment compliance: An integrative literature review
Tuberculosis and Mental Illness (TB-MI) often co-occur with a varying range of interactions of both....
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Barriers That Interfere with Access to Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Treatment across Countries Globally: A Systematic Review
This study evaluated the barriers that interfere with access to diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis...
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Coping efforts made: Psychological burden of people living with tuberculosis due to social stigma in society. A qualitative phenomenology study
The psychological burden is greatly felt by people living with tuberculosis because the characteristics of...
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Building social equity and person-centred innovation into the end TB response
Reducing systemic inequities in testing, access to care, social protection – and in the scientific...
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Making social protection a reality for people with TB: a perspective on new global guidance
TB disproportionately affects poorer, vulnerable people and communities, and has severe social and economic impacts...
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Rethinking Tuberculosis Morbidity Quantification: A Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal of TB Disability Weights in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses
Background: The disability-adjusted life year (DALY), a key metric for health resource allocation, encompasses morbidity...
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Community views on active case finding for tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis
Abstract Background: Active case finding (ACF) refers to the systematic identification of people with tuberculosis in...
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Global, regional, and national age-specific progress towards the 2020 milestones of the WHO End TB Strategy: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Background Global evaluations of the progress towards the WHO End TB Strategy 2020 interim milestones...
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Activating Law and Human Rights to End Tuberculosis: An Empirical Assessment of Ten Countries’ Fulfillment of United Nations Commitments
The United Nations General Assembly held the first-ever High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis in 2018 (the...
