Manly Town Hall was lit up red last week to mark World Tuberculosis Day. For the third year in a row, Manly Town Hall at Belgrave Street, Manly, joined dozens of buildings around Australia, and hundreds around the world, to light up red for World Tuberculosis (TB) Day...
Advocating: Central Coast mayor Jan Bonde said the illumination initiative was intended to make governments and members of parliament aware of the devastating health, social, and economic impacts of tuberculosis. Picture: Brodie Weeding. Infrastructure in Ulverstone...
The National Carillon in Canberra will light up red tonight on World Tuberculosis Day, 24 March, to stand in solidarity with the 1.5 million people who die of Tuberculosis (TB) each year. It will be one of the numerous iconic locations across Australia showing their...
The Australian Government needs to commit $450 million to fighting tuberculosis, say Results International (Australia) and Pacific Friends of Global Health, as the global death toll rises for the first time in a decade while COVID-battered regional health systems...
In 2020, 1.5 million people died due to tuberculosis. For First Nations Australians, the rate of TB infection is six times higher than the rest of the population. Photograph: Mahesh Kumar A/AP When the pandemic unfolded, vital resources were diverted away from...
“Peter: would you like to come to a meeting that has the potential to save the lives of 40,000 children every day?” In 1986, this innocuous-sounding call from a work colleague was coincidental with helping save the life of a child in Canberra, one week earlier. With...
