TB

Mobilizing to help coworkers in need. Increasing diverse representation in clinical trials. Advocating on behalf of people living with life-altering medical conditions. Learn about the extraordinary ways these trailblazers made a difference in 2022.

Healthcare providers who contracted TB on the job. A microbiologist researching new treatments. An activist ensuring attention is paid to one of the world’s greatest health threats. These young leaders share one goal: to help end TB.

Despite being preventable and curable, tuberculosis is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases—and COVID-19 is making it even harder to diagnose and treat it. Enter these healthcare visionaries, who’ve made it their mission to move the world closer to the goal of ending tuberculosis.

The Access to Medicine Index, a ranking of pharmaceutical companies’ work to distribute medications to low- and middle-income countries, just named Johnson & Johnson #3 on its biennial list, underscoring the company’s deep history of ensuring people in underserved communities receive the treatments they need.

From epidemic masks that the company introduced during the Spanish flu pandemic to work it’s doing today on an investigational COVID-19 vaccine, learn how the company has been at the forefront of safeguarding global public health for well over a century.

Check out this fun interactive map for a glimpse at how the company is helping people on nearly every continent live healthier lives.

It isn’t just music superstars who attend the annual event taking place in New York City and South Africa this year. Johnson & Johnson’s Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Paul Stoffels, is on the lineup, too. He shares his personal story of why he’s so dedicated to global public health—and how the company is working to prevent HIV infections through an investigational vaccine.

Johnson & Johnson has been instrumental in helping bring us closer to a TB-free world through its groundbreaking work with multidrug-resistant TB.

Jaak Peeters discusses the thinking behind the initiative and how the organization will work in partnership with local governments and NGOs.

In honor of World TB Day, we take a look at the work being done in South Africa, Vietnam and India to stop tuberculosis in its tracks.