Tuberculosis Awareness: Global Outlook
Posted on 03 October 2008 by Johnetta Miner
Today I received an email that touched my very core, my inner being. I take this opportunity to share it with you because of the magnitude and global ramifications of the message. As a former public health nurse, in the city of New York, who worked in communities visiting patients, and also accepting community residents’ offer to assist me in locating patients (in order to encourage them to come to the clinic for their TB medications), I have a first hand experience about the impact of the effect of TB on individuals and communities.
Email excerpt:
“Over the past year, hundreds of individuals and companies associated with TED have collaborated in a spectacular TED Prize project, launching today, to raise global awareness of XDR-TB. What is XDR-TB? ….., please visit http://www.xdrtb.org and prepare to be shocked and moved. This is a race between the ability of a deadly, mutated bacteria to spread, and our ability to spread awareness first.”
