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UN Report: Climate Change Will Deepen Poverty, Hunger
A new report details the impact of climate change on human survival.
March 31, 2014
Florida Bill Would Combat Superbug Threat
A bill to track drug-resistant infections has been introduced in Florida, inspired in part by FRONTLINE's "Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria."
March 28, 2014
Why Northwestern Football Players Won the Right to Unionize
The decision marks a potential game-changer in the debate over whether college athletes are professionals entitled to some form of compensation for their work.
March 27, 2014
How Can We Stop The TB Pandemic? Live Chat 3/26 3:30 pm ET
Join us for a live chat about "TB Silent Killer" on Wed. 3/26 with filmmaker Jezza Neumann, NPR global health reporter Michaeleen Doucleff and a panel of TB experts. You can leave a question now.
March 25, 2014
In Race Against TB, Testing Struggles to Keep Up
Increasingly virulent strains of TB have spread around the world, yet in many countries health workers continue to rely on a test first developed in the 1800s.
March 25, 2014
What's the TB Threat in the U.S.?
Is eradication feasible? Here is a brief snapshot of the effort to stem tuberculosis in the U.S.
March 25, 2014
Map: TB's Global Reach
As TB cases declined in the Western world in recent decades, so did the funding to deal with the disease. But TB, an airborne bug that spreads best when the infected are left untreated in crowded areas, continued to flourish in poorer nations.
March 25, 2014
What's Happened To Bheki, Nokubheka and Gcebile?
When FRONTLINE's cameras left Swaziland, the characters from "TB Silent Killer" were all at different stages in their treatment. Seven months later, how are they doing?
March 25, 2014
The Slow-Motion Search for a New TB Treatment
As TB becomes more resistant, the drugs used to treat the disease are still stuck in the 20th century.
March 25, 2014
I Was the Man in the Mask
Filmmaker Jezza Neumann describes taking "calculated risks" to tell the story of "TB Silent Killer."
March 25, 2014
Childhood TB is Twice as Bad as Once Thought, Study Finds
Roughly 1 million children suffer from TB annually, twice as many as previously thought, according to a new study in The Lancet.
March 24, 2014
What's Happened Since "Rape in the Fields"?
Once considered an open secret, sexual violence in the fields is now national news.
March 18, 2014