Tuberculosis is the most underestimated disease in the world

Tuberculosis is still killing millions of people, particularly in the developing world, but the urgent action needed to stop it does not seem to be in place, writes Tomaso Clavarino

THE dirt roads are dusty in the summer and a quagmire when it starts to rain. The gutters, few and far between, fill up quickly with milky, putrid water.

Khayelitsha, the second-largest South African township, is a stretch of wooden and tin shacks clumped tightly together. It’s growing quickly.