World Tuberculosis Day 2020

World TB Day 2018: The Challenge of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis

On 24th March, the world commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Over 130 years later, tuberculosis (TB) continues to affect individuals, communities, and entire health systems and economies. Koch unsuccessfully tried to 'cure' TB, and despite major advances in other areas of medicine, control of TB remains elusive- in 2016 T...

A day in my practice in 2020.

As the new year approaches, I find myself thinking about the future of family medicine, particularly how medical practice might look in the next decade. It’s anyone’s guess, but this is what I imagine: I wake up at 6 a.m. and drive my electric car to work. Quite the early bird, I am first to arrive. We are a group of a dozen family doctors whose ancillary staff includes dietitians and physician...

World TB Day 2016--advancing global tuberculosis control efforts.

Since the WHO declared tuberculosis a global health emergency in 1993, important strides have been made in global tuberculosis control efforts. Tuberculosis associated mortality has halved and 45 million lives have been saved. Despite these advances, an estimated 9·6 million people developed tuberculosis worldwide in 2014, of whom 1·5 million died. Of the estimated 480 000 cases of multidrug-re...

The World of 2020 and Alternative Futures

Epidemiology of Tuberculosis During the Period 1703–2011: Honoring the World Tuberculosis Day

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest, the most expanded and the most lethal diseases in human history. Although Koch's discovery of the TB causative agent (1882) represented a great progress in the fight against this infectious disease, it took a significant amount of time to reduce morbidity and mortality in the world. In Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) it was necessary to implement actions in ...