TB today: Tackling the disease in London
The event commemorates the date in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB). Hosted by the UCL Institute for Global Health, the event will provide an opportunity to describe problems and solutions related to the TB pandemic and to support worldwide TB control efforts. It will showcase TB and global health work from a range of UCL disciplines and feature presentations from leading academics in the field. The event is now fully booked, but a waiting list is open at the booking page above. In this podcast, Dr Lipman discusses the challenges of tackling the disease in London, its development over time and why TB is still prevalent today. Professor Alimuddin Zumla (UCL Centre for Infectious Diseases and International Health) has marked World TB Day this year with a co-authored editorial in the South African Medical Journal. The researchers reflect on the paradoxical fact that, although effective and cheap therapy has been available for over 60 years, TB kills nearly 1.8 million people every year, which equates to 5,000 people every day.
