Tuberculosis (TB), one of the leading infectious killers in Brazil and other low- and middle-income countries, is closely linked to poverty. "We know that TB is driven by poverty, but until now ...
A government programme to give cash to low-income people in Brazil significantly reduced their risk of tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease, a major new study has found.
Tuberculosis is famously a disease of poverty. People are exposed to the bacteria that causes TB in overcrowded, under ventilated spaces. This type of scene is, unfortunately, familiar to many in ...
Brazil's Bolsa Família Program (BFP), one of the world's largest conditional cash transfer programmes, was responsible for the reduction of more than half the number of tuberculosis cases and ...
Brazil's Bolsa Família Program (BFP), one of the world's largest conditional cash transfer programs, was responsible for the reduction of more than half the number of tuberculosis cases and ...
"People who have poor nutrition – it increases the risk very, very substantially for progression to tuberculosis," says Richterman. Again, Scaff says, poor people in Brazil often don't have acce ...