Respiratory physician and epidemiologist Professor Guy Marks explains why tuberculosis remains a major public health challenge, but also an opportunity. With today’s screening, diagnostic, and treatment tools, ending TB is possible if we choose to prioritise it.

TB remains the leading infectious killer on the planet. A disease thousands of years old, with a cure, still claiming a life every 20 seconds Every day across the University of Sydney our world-leading researchers are working to protect communities here in Australia, and across our region against TB. At the University of Sydney, our partnerships, our science, and our people are united to end TB.

Ending TB is within our reach, if we act together. Partners around the world are showing what collective action can achieve. #WorldTBDay #shorts

Professor Steve Graham introduces the online course on the management of child and adolescent TB, available for free on the Union Online Courses platform. The course also includes a package of training resources designed for use in low‑ and middle‑income countries that want to deliver national or sub‑national courses to build the skills of clinicians in identifying child TB. https://coursesonline.theunion.org/theunion/?menu=25&browseby=9&trend=19469&featured=18155&sortby=1#!*menu=25*browseby=9*sortby=1*trend=19469*featured=18155

You probably think TB is a disease of the past. But that’s not because we’ve beat it. It’s because we’ve moved it elsewhere. Every year, over 10 million people fall ill with tuberculosis and it's concentrated where people are poorest, where overcrowding helps it spread, and where a six-month treatment course can mean losing your job, or even your social life.  Professor Greg Fox is an infectious diseases physician who treats TB patients in Sydney and leads research across Southeast Asia.   Greg outlines Australia’s responsibility to its neighbours in battling TB, and explains why cultural barriers like stigma make treatment so difficult in countries like Vietnam.   Read more about tuberculosis in Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green. +++  The Solutionists is a podcast from the University of Sydney, produced by Deadset Studios. This episode was produced by Liam Riordan with sound design by Jeremy Wilmot. Supervising producer is Sarah Dabro. Executive editors are Kellie Riordan, Jen Peterson-Ward, and Mark Scott. Strategist is Ann Chesterman.  This podcast was recorded on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. For thousands of years, across innumerable generations, knowledge has been taught, shared and exchanged here. We pay respect to elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.