Meals as medicine: Feed the hungry to treat the TB pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic claims lives across the planet and eclipses all other news, it is easy to forget that it is not the only pandemic harming people across the globe. Tuberculosis (TB) has been found in the bones of ancient mummies and in the lungs of young children in the present. It has insidiously woven itself into the fabric of humanity over millennia, shaping culture along the way. Although it does not dominate news cycles like the younger pandemic, TB remains a serious global health crisis today.