- link Copy URL - [ Share on X ](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=J&J Exec: Tuberculosis is a Global Emergency. It's Time to Start Treating it That Way https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/235386?absolute=1&via=3blnews "Share on X") - [ Share on linkedin ](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/235386?absolute=1 "Share on Linkedin") - [ Share on facebook ](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/235386?absolute=1 "Share on Facebook") - [ email Share via email ](mailto:?subject=J&J Exec: Tuberculosis is a Global Emergency. It's Time to Start Treating it That Way &body=ESG News from Johnson & Johnson https://www.3blmedia.com/markdownify/node/235386?absolute=1 "Share via email") [Health & Healthcare](/categories/health-healthcare) # J&J Exec: Tuberculosis is a Global Emergency. It's Time to Start Treating it That Way ##### By Paul Stoffels Jan 11, 2019 9:30 AM ET Campaign: ![](/s3/files/styles/carousel_2x/s3/2026-08/tuberculosis_xray_1786811124.jpeg "A lung x-ray that clearly shows tuberculosis, in Liberia. Liberia is listed as one of the high-burden countries for tuberculosis by the World Health Organization. Image courtesy of Getty Images") A lung x-ray that clearly shows tuberculosis, in Liberia. Liberia is listed as one of the high-burden countries for tuberculosis by the World Health Organization. Image courtesy of Getty Images [Originally published on CNBC.com](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/26/jj-exec-tuberculosis-is-a-global-emergency-treat-it-that-way.html) Four years ago, a disease that rarely made headlines — Ebola — raged in West Africa. There was no vaccine, treatment or cure. Though the initial response was slow, the international community ultimately mobilized resources, developed scientific innovations and promised to make sure a tragedy on the same scale would never happen again. Today, Ebola is back, but the story is changing. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, where I started my career as a physician, is facing the second of two threatening Ebola outbreaks this year, but this time we're better prepared to respond thanks to new tools, including new vaccines. My company, [Johnson & Johnson](https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/?symbol=JNJ), is among those that accelerated the development of a vaccine and stands ready to deploy it when needed. Ebola, and HIV before it, shows what can be accomplished once a disease is catapulted to the top of the global agenda. So it is puzzling to me why [a far deadlier disease](https://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/default.htm) — tuberculosis — has never received this sort of attention and focus from the global community. [Continue reading on CNBC.com](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/26/jj-exec-tuberculosis-is-a-global-emergency-treat-it-that-way.html) [![](/sites/default/files/Clients/j-j-logosignature-rgb-red053019.jpg)](/profiles/johnson-johnson) ### More from Johnson & Johnson ###### [Johnson & Johnson Releases 2021 Health for Humanity Report Highlighting Performance on ESG Priorities and Progress Against Public Commitments](/news/johnson-johnson-releases-2021-health-humanity-report-highlighting-performance-esg-priorities) Jun 8, 2022 1:05 PM ET ###### [Johnson & Johnson MedTech Earns a Spot on Fast Company's 2022 Most Innovative Companies List](/news/johnson-johnson-medtech-earns-spot-fast-companys-2022-most-innovative-companies-list) Mar 29, 2022 3:00 PM ET ###### [Johnson & Johnson Named a 2022 Fortune World's Most Admired Company and Ranked #1 on the Pharmaceutical Industry List](/news/johnson-johnson-named-2022-fortune-worlds-most-admired-company-and-ranked-1-pharmaceutical) Mar 14, 2022 10:45 AM ET ###### [Healthy Lives Mission: Lessons Learned](/news/healthy-lives-mission-lessons-learned) Feb 7, 2022 9:30 AM ET ###### [Making Our Packaging More Sustainable](/news/making-our-packaging-more-sustainable) Feb 2, 2022 1:15 PM ET ###### [Supplying an Award-Winning Model for Diversity and Inclusion](/news/supplying-award-winning-model-diversity-and-inclusion) Jan 19, 2022 10:00 AM ET ###### [How Johnson & Johnson's Innovative Supply Chain Technology is Helping Transform How We Work - and Live](/news/how-johnson-johnsons-innovative-supply-chain-technology-helping-transform-how-we-work-and-live) Jan 13, 2022 2:15 PM ET ###### [Johnson & Johnson Announces Significant Progress Towards Its Climate Goals - 100% Renewable Electricity for All Sites in the United States, Canada and Europe by 2023](/news/johnson-johnson-announces-significant-progress-towards-its-climate-goals-100-renewable) Nov 30, 2021 4:40 PM ET