Dr. Joia Mukherjee discusses the urgency of treating the widespread MDR-TB epidemic.

Socios En Salud, long recognized as a leader for innovating community-based treatment for MDR-TB and for training other health professionals how to do it, has redoubled training activities, sending teams to Haiti and Africa and hosting nurses from Latin America.

With help from a $3 million grant from the Open Society Institute, PIH is taking on an epidemic that has been widely described as "incurable" and that threatens to reverse recent progress in combatting HIV/AIDS

Partners In Health Russia marked a major milestone in November with the launch of "Sputnik," a new health promotion program using community health workers to improve care for patients living with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Tomsk, Siberia.