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MDR-TB patients face discrimination, long road to recovery in Peru
Video: Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course of medical treatment. What’s worse, many say, is being ostracized by friends and neighbors who fear the dreaded disease.
Photographer David Rochkind’s Journey of Discovery
On my third day in Mumbai I met Rehmat Shekh, a 28 year old woman who is HIV postive and battling TB for the first time in her life. When I walked into her home, a small 8×10 foot room that she shares with 3 family members, she was on the floor, her gaunt frame [...]
TB in Haiti After the Earthquake
Even before the recent earthquake shook large portions of Haiti to rubble, the country already had the highest tuberculosis rate in the Americas (roughly 30,000 new cases each year). With the health infrastructure now mostly in ruins, TB is likely to rise even further.
The New York Times’ Ian Urbina writes how the country’s sole tuberculosis [...]
