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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...