Infectious Diseases

Gasping for Breath/TB

Reporting on the science behind why TB remains a deadly disease, the advances in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, and the political and social forces shaping how it spreads and who it affects.

Gasping for Breath/TB
Sunday 22 March 2026

How Nairobi’s Housing Could be Driving Spread of TB

Michael Oluoch had always rubbished his cough as normal because of the dust he inhales at his work as a manual labourer on construction sites. In...
Gasping for Breath/TB
Sunday 22 March 2026

‘I tried to quit many times’: A community health promoter decries unpaid labour

The pain began slowly: a strange, interminable fatigue, then aching and swelling of the legs. The pain grew, forcing her to go to Kajiado County...
Gasping for Breath/TB
Thursday 24 April 2025

Systems, Silence, Spread: Kenya’s imminent Tuberculosis Crisis Amid Funding Cuts

Joel Owino, 52, says his body is fading away, partly due to his two-year battle with tuberculosis (TB). Mr. Owino, who was born in Simenya village in...

How Nairobi’s Housing Could be Driving Spread of TB

‘I tried to quit many times’: A community health promoter decries unpaid labour

Systems, Silence, Spread: Kenya’s imminent Tuberculosis Crisis Amid Funding Cuts