COVID-19 derails global quest to end tuberculosis

Tuberculosis has existed for millennia yet has never garnered the global response, political will, or financial resources that the world has produced for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health-care workers in Canada have likewise reported that COVID-19 disruptions have resulted in diagnostic delays, large-scale diversions of TB staff to COVID-19 work, and declines in quality of TB care, writes Leigh Raithby.
The health inequities made clear by COVID-19—like the hoarding and accompanied famine of vaccines between wealthy and low-income countries—reinforce a fact that those working and living with neglected diseases like tuberculosis have long known to be true: power relations dictate whose lives are ...

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