“TB is the child of poverty – and also its parent and provider”: Bishop Desmond Tutu, who was himself a survivor of childhood tuberculosis. I was recently commissioned by the NGO ChildFund to pull together this report on the impact of the TB epidemic on the children of Papua New Guinea. You can find the … Continue reading
Thrilled to announce that my documentary for ABC Radio National’s Background Briefing program “Ebola with Wings: the TB crisis on our doorstep” is a finalist for the Australian Museum’s Eureka Prizes in the Science Journalism category. My co-nominees are BB’s executive producer, Wendy Carlisle, and team members Tim Roxburgh and Linda McGinness. You can listen … Continue reading
Five years after the alarm was raised on the drug resistant tuberculosis emergency in PNG, the worst fears of experts about its spread are being realised. I go back to Daru, the outbreak front line, for my debut as a radio journalist reporting for the ABC. Find the podcast here. Continue reading
A confronting story from Bougainville, PNG, where I have often reported on the crisis of maternal deaths (second highest in the Asia Pacific after Afghanistan). The news angle here the landmark case around the jailing of a couple for the termination of a pregnancy. But the background context is about the tragedy deaths in childbirth, … Continue reading
In stellar company in the May edition of The Monthly, talking shit – my shit, and the microbiome, the exploding medical frontier of our gut. Now unlocked! You can find it by clicking here. Continue reading
Sadly The Global Mail’s archive has been shut down, but visitors to this blog note that I have today restored links to all my blogged PNG/Global Mail stories. Note these snapshots are a bit clunky and some images have vanished so keep scrolling past the blanks or you may miss lots of text! TGM was … Continue reading
My report for TIME.com in the aftermath of the shooting down of MH17 over Ukraine. On board were HIV/AIDS researchers and activists en route to Melbourne for the AIDS2014 conference. Initially delegates were told as many as 100 of their colleagues might have been on board, but the number confirmed is far fewer. For the … Continue reading
Notebook & Narrative by Jo Chandler 