Allison’s Reviews > Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection > Status Update

every dollar invested in TB yields $46 in benefits.

Benefits including fewer infected, early diagnosis leading to higher survival, knowing which drugs to use which decreases new drug resistance, longer hospital stays and more drugs used. It’s obvious. But health investment is always obvious and every country seems to struggle with it.

“In a highly racialized social order, conceiving of phthisis as a ‘civilized’ disease also meant that it could not be a disease of uncivilized people, which furthered the racialization of consumption. In Europe and the US, most white doctors believed that phthisis-as it was inherited by those with great sensitivity and intelligence-could only affect white people”