Abstract The good of those who are worse off matters more to the overall than better does. But being one’s fellows is not itself bad; nor inequality do differences in well-being matter when lower an absolute sense. Instead, relatively worse-off weighs heavily better-off does, virtue fact that former off. This paper articulates and defends view just described.

This paper describes an action framework for countries with low tuberculosis (TB) incidence (<100 TB cases per million population) that are striving for TB elimination. The framework sets out priority interventions required for these countries to progress first towards "pre-elimination" (<10 cases per million) and eventually the elimination of TB as a public health problem (less than one case p...