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A powerful idea from the unveiling of
James Nachtwey's photos of the XDR-TB epidemic on Friday night in New York City:
During the Q&A session with some TB experts and activists, an audience member asked: "We're talking about XDR-TB, but
what about regular TB? What are we doing to cure that?"
Dr. Marcos Espinal of the Stop TB Project gave a direct answer:
"Cure poverty. Tuberculosis is a disease of the poor."
The list of specific
risk factors for TB bears this out; you are more likely to catch TB if you are, for example, malnourished, living in crowded conditions or living in a refugee camp or shelter, or if you lack access to health care.
It's a disease of the bottom billion. And so are TB's frightening new mutated forms,
XDR-TB and MDR-TB -- because wiping out TB
before it mutates costs ... $20.
To learn more, download these PDF factsheets about
XDR-TB and MDR-TB and
TB from the
World Health Organization and its
Stop TB Project. And
find 3 quick ways to help at XDRTB.org -- such as
signing a letter that will be sent directly to your country's leaders.
As Benjamin von Caspel wrote, when he
told his friends about XDRTB.org via
Twitter:
James Nachtwey's TED prize project has gone live - http://www.xdrtb.org/ - Yet another reason to remember the bottom billion matter.
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10-06-2008, 07:44 AM
TED RSS Feed: To stop XDR-TB, cure TB. To stop TB, cure poverty.
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