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[ Watch webinar recording ] [ Listen or download audio podcast ] Be welcome to register for this exclusive webinar in lead up to World TB Day 2017 where experts will share experiences on the role of faith in the fight against TB , and explore opportunities of how faith can help to expedite efforts to #endTB by 2030. Watch recording | Listen/ download audio podcast Experts including those from the Desmond Tutu TB Centre in South Africa and International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union) will present and respond to questions live! DATE: Tuesday, 28th February 2017 TIME: 1:00pm Geneva Time (check www.timeanddate.com for your local time) Watch recording | Listen/ download audio podcast Panel of experts [ Watch 4:50 - 17:30 of webinar recording ] Jody Boffa , community-based researcher and epidemiologist at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa and Vanier Doctoral Research Scholar at the Department of Community Health Sciences, Universi...

Shobha Shukla, CNS (Citizen News Service) Shobha Shukla, CNS (L), Dr Chitra Chandrashekar (R) [ audio podcast ] [ video ] So said award-winning Dr Chitra Chandrashekar , Director of  Dr Iravatham’s Clinical Laboratory, Hyderabad. I met her in Mumbai during NAPCON 2016 and was struck by her modesty and her passion for working in the field of TB. Chitra spoke with CNS (Citizen News Service) about her study titled 'Host susceptibility to Mycobacteria and Transmission dynamics' , related to the transmission dynamics of TB, which won her the prestigious Professor OA Sarma Oration Award at NAPCON 2016. Listen or download this audio podcast   Watch this video interview Here is what Dr Chitra Chandrashekar shared: “ It is important to know why TB transmission continues unabated in high burden countries like India, despite there being tools to control it. My study investigated TB transmission dynamics and associated risk factors in the micro environment of urban slums, which are ...