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TB Photovoice Touches Lives Through Photographs that Give Voice to TB
The TB Photovoice (TBPV) Project was awarded the TB Survival Prize 2010... TBPV provides cameras to community members (survivors, caregivers, friends, family) affected by TB, who take photographs that help them identify and improve their communities
Thai Hospitals are Running Out of Antiretroviral Drugs for Patients With HIV
'We have been unable to secure a sustainable source of ARVs for our patients,' explains a staff of the Mae Tao Clinic, a clinic providing health care services to migrants and displaced people near the Thai-Burma border. 'If they stop taking their
Health Funding Grows to Staggering $26 Billion for 2010
The report documents that there is a continous health funding for the developing countries. The commitment to health in the developing world has grown dramatically over the last twenty years.
More Poverty and Tuberculosis (TB) in Indigenous People
'Where we have indigenous people, we have more poverty and more TB incidence' said Mirtha del Granado, Regional Adviser on TB, WHO (in Americas) at the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health, Berlin, Germany.
TB and Tobacco Consumption Kill Millions of People Every Year
The connection between breath and life is fundamental, yet lung health does not seem to be high on the public health agenda. Around 10 million people (especially the poor, old and the weak) die every year, due to lung diseases, including tuberculosi
