In honor of World TB Day 2024, we're re-releasing our three-part series from last year on the status of tuberculosis diagnostics worldwide.
For World TB Day 2024, the World Health Organization updated their new ⁠⁠recommendations⁠⁠ and their ⁠⁠TB sequencing portal⁠⁠. Our guest Morten Ruhwald also wrote this ⁠⁠press release⁠⁠ on behalf of FIND.
These episodes originally premiered on March 3rd, 2023.

In a special 3-part season premiere, Halteres Presents is spotlighting tuberculosis diagnostics worldwide, and where things stand in the field today. In Part Three, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Dr. Shibu Vijayan, the Medical Director for Global Health Practice at Qure.ai, a healthtech company that uses artificial intelligence assistance for medical imaging diagnostics. Dr. Vijayan is a senior clinician in Community and Public Health Services with over 25 years of experience in developing, monitoring, and evaluating public health projects, including developing healthcare-related proposals in both private and not-for-profit organizations. He is also an accredited International general Tuberculosis (TB) expert by the TB team hosted by WHO and Stop TB Partnership. Prior to Qure.ai, Dr. Vijayan was at PATH and has also worked with the WHO as Technical Consultant for the TB Control Program in India and was associated with Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF, Netherlands) as a field Epidemiologist in Ethiopia.