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    Opinion: Tuberculosis is a disease the world could control. But will it?

    #Tuberculosis is relentless and cruel, and lately it has been winning. But it doesn't stand a chance if the world comes together to fight back.
    by Paul Farmer and Lelio Marmora Sep 26, 2018 3 minutes
    A woman in India with tuberculosis prepares to take a dose of medicines at the TB Unit of the Baherampura District Microscopic Centre in Ahmedabad.

    When Juan Paucar Yareta was diagnosed with tuberculosis, he was living with his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter on the fringes of Lima, Peru. The 57-year-old electrician started taking the standard treatment for this airborne infectious disease in 2003, but the disease kept its grip on him and he continued to lose weight. His doctors switched him to different medications. And then switched again. At some point, his tuberculosis had grown resistant to the so-called first-line tuberculosis drugs.

    As Juan continued to waste away, he lost his job but

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