Tuberculosis
topic on 2 shows · 15 statements across 3 episodes
American Optimist 
Masters of Scale
15 statements about Tuberculosis, every show
John Green: Over 150 Million Died of TB Since 1950s Cure
“Tuberculosis, which has been curable since the 19 fifties. But in the decades since it became curable, we've allowed over a hundred fifty million people to die of it.”
Green: One in seven humans who ever lived died of TB
“I mean, one out of every seven people or somewhere in that vicinity has died of tuberculosis of the people who've ever been born.”
John Green: UN estimates TB eradication requires $25B annually
“It would take twenty-five billion dollars a year according to the UN to really eradicate tuberculosis globally.”
John Green: India accounts for nearly one-third of global TB deaths
“Almost a third of the people who die of tuberculosis this year will die in India.”
John Green: Lesotho has the world's highest tuberculosis rate
“The highest rates we see of tuberculosis are in Lesotho, which is a small country in southern Africa where a lot of people work in mining.”
John Green: Reducing poverty cuts tuberculosis rates without medical intervention
“We know that when we cut the rates of impoverishment, even without medical intervention, we cut the rates of TB.”
Green: Governments must intervene to make TB treatments more profitable than cosmetics
“The only way to resolve that disconnect, in my opinion, is to have governments or other international authorities involved in reshaping the incentive structure so that it becomes profitable to treat tuberculosis, more profitable to treat tuberculosis than it i…”
Green: Eight TB drug classes developed 1945-1965, zero from 1965-2012
“Between 1945 and 19 65, we developed eight classes of drugs to treat tuberculosis because there was a real market incentive to do so. And then between 1965 and 2012, we developed none.”
John Green: Antibiotic economics fail because effective drugs must be used least
“Because from a market perspective, you want a drug that everyone takes all the time. And from an antibiotic perspective, you want a drug that almost no one takes except in cases of everything else failing so that you can protect the antibiotic. And there's jus…”
John Green: US Nearly Eliminated TB via Mobile Chest X-Ray Units
“And this is exactly how we eliminated tuberculosis or nearly eliminated tuberculosis in the United States. We sent out these mobile, like, Winnebago's with chest x-ray machines inside of them all throughout the country to places where there were high rates of …”
John Green: TB Elimination Blueprints in Lesotho Can Apply Globally
“If we can provide a blueprint for how we eliminate tuberculosis and say Lesotho, then that can apply to the entire world.”
Lomborg: A quarter of TB patients in Kenya lose their marriage
“In, in Kenya, for instance, if you get tuberculosis, it has so much social stigma. That a quarter of everyone who gets diagnosed lose their marriage.”
Lomborg: Tuberculosis interventions yield $46 of good per dollar spent
“Now that has costs, but it's very, very small cost compared to the fact that we could actually stop about a million people dying each and every year. It'd be one of the best things we could do for every dollar spent. We estimate we could do 46 dollars worth of…”
Lomborg: Effective Altruism prioritizes existential risks over immediate global health
“Effective altruism is obviously a great idea. And they're very, very much in the same wavelength as what we are. But my senses are we often disagree because see, they have sort of gone off on this more interesting rich world trend of saying, oh, but the big th…”