No One Should Die of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century

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Patient dying of MDR-TB and HIV and her mother in Lesotho. (c) Open Society Institute/Pep Bonet

This is what we stand for. As today’s World TB Day comes to a close (at least in this part of the world), please take a minute to sign up to one of our expert-led communities on GHDonline.org — two focus on fighting and eradicating this deadly scourge (MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention and TB Infection Control).

And if you have a few more minutes, please read “No One Should Die of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century“, an article in the Huffington Post co-authored with Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, Ph.D, Sc.M, former GHDonline moderator, and currently Director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is also a Senior TB Specialist at Partners In Health.

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Jim Kim picked to lead World Bank: What it means for Global Health

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What a great way to end the week: learning that our co-founder and inspiration, Jim Yong Kim, has been nominated by President Obama to head the World Bank. Partners In Health co-founder Dr. Paul Farmer applauded the nomination of his long-time colleague and friend. “I can think of no one more able to help families, communities, and entire nations break out of poverty, which is the stated goal of the World Bank,” Dr. Farmer said. He added that Kim was “an inspired choice.”

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