Disease and Diplomacy. Tuberculosis as a political weapon.

... infrastructures of the BRICS, who account for nearly half the TB cases worldwide. At the same time, however, non government actors with global political agendas, including philanthropies, the pharmaceutical industry and speculators, seek to disrupt government funded “social net” public health programs. Events running concurrent with BRICS gatherings like the recent Brasilia meetings in early December 2014, provide these non-state actors with a platform to evangelize their agenda to “offshore” the diplomatic initiatives ...