There is a striking epidemiological shift underway across much of Africa: People now face as much risk of dying from a noncommunicable disease such as diabetes as they do an infectious one, such as malaria. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/h...
Reporting in northern Cameroon, I noticed a few people sitting at the back of a hospital compound. They had drug-resistant TB. They weren't there to get meds or see a doctor: they LIVE there. For months. In isolation. That's government policy. Sanitarium throwback. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/h...
And somehow that seems not be an unlocked link so here we go, one last time – accessible to anyone who wants to read about TB! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/h...
Historically, health systems here have been structured and funded to focus on infectious threats – and only now are steps being taken to try to bring the resources and personnel essential to address diabetes. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/h...
It's a treatable condition – but the vast majority of the 54 million Africans with diabetes don't even know they have it, let alone have access to the medication to treat it.
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This model of TB care was abandoned in much of the rest of the world 60 yrs ago. Science says it's a bad idea. But it takes both resources and political will to change health systems, and TB, unfortunately, gets too little of either. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/h...
Stephanie Nolen
Stephanie Nolen
Stephanie Nolen
Stephanie Nolen
Stephanie Nolen
Stephanie Nolen
4 Months Trapped in a Hospital for an Obsolete Way of Treating TB. Isolating tuberculosis patients is an outdated and potentially harmful practice, but poor countries lack the resources to move away from it, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/h... via @nytimes.com
Diabetes, Overlooked and Unchecked, Poses New Risks in Africa. As deaths from diabetes start to rival those from infectious threats like malaria, a new form of the condition linked to malnutrition is surfacing, by @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/h... via @nytimes.com
The U.S. is considering escalating pressure on Zambia to sign away its mineral rights by withholding life-saving HIV treatment from Zambians as early as May according to a leaked memo to @stephanienolen.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...
André Picard @picardonhealth
André Picard @picardonhealth
Andrew Green
U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access. Story by @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/4bLRbF4
