tuberculosis

“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 …”

“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.”

“If we can provide a blueprint for how we eliminate tuberculosis and say Lesotho, then that can apply to the entire world.”

“It would take twenty-five billion dollars a year according to the UN to really eradicate tuberculosis globally.”

“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…”

“Almost a third of the people who die of tuberculosis this year will die in India.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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…”

“We know that when we cut the rates of impoverishment, even without medical intervention, we cut the rates of TB.”

“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.”