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Tuberculosis: The very name of the disease evokes images of antiquity, a footnote in dusty encyclopedias of human sickness overshadowed by the abbreviated diseases of the present—SARS, HIV/AIDS, H1N1. Few students would be able to guess that one third of the world’s population is...
After a long period of decline, TB incidence has risen dramatically since the 1980s, despite the improvement of sanitary conditions, the development of anti-TB drugs in the 1950s, and the introduction of the World Health Organization’s directly-observed treatment short-course program for more effective treatment...
New therapeutic regimens represent, however, only half the solution. Without commensurate scale-up of community-based treatment programs—the “social” dimension of treatment—or reform of inefficient drug delivery mechanisms in developing countries, TB treatment will remain inaccessible, ineffective, and ultimately...
"Abortion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women," Foster said, adding that whether women fear being fired, expelled from school, or abandoned by their partners, their common concern is facing pregnancy alone.
Foster added that women who decide they are not ready to be mothers can make that choice without having an abortion by instead opting for adoption or child support as alternatives to abortion.