Disease, Documentary, Health, International Day, Medium < 30m, Video
Dr. Jayant Banavaliker, a leading TB doctor in Delhi, chronicles his daily struggle to save patients using today’s antiquated tools: diagnostics barely more predictable than chance, drugs that can be toxic and weak against the pathogen, and a vaccine with limited...
Disease, Documentary, Health, International Day, Medium < 30m, Video
Unathi Gwintsa lives with her daughter in Worcester, South Africa, a community devastated by TB. But she’s not sitting back and waiting for the answer. She has volunteered in a clinical trial of one of a dozen TB vaccine candidates in clinical development. We...
Disease, Documentary, Health, Innovation, International Day, Medium < 30m, Video
Professor Helen McShane has dedicated the last 12 years of her life to developing a new tuberculosis vaccine. We follow her team’s unprecedented work at Oxford University and explore why now is a pivotal moment in history to save millions of lives and end the TB...Disease, Health, International Day, Video
In 2010, Mayank Sharma of New Delhi, India contracted tubercular meningitis, a serious inflammation of the central nervous system. After a week in the hospital, he emerged without any memory of ever getting sick—or of the first twenty-seven years of his life. He began...Disease, Health, International Day, Website
Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by a germ called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It usually affects the lungs and is caught from other people. Your body’s natural defences, its immune system, usually control or destroy the germs once they are inhaled leaving them...
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Sustainability, Video
“Costa Rica is on a path that seeks development, but only development in a healthy environment,” says Edgar Gutiérrez, Costa Rica’s Environmental Minister. Gutiérrez explains how Costa Rica, one of the greenest countries on Earth, is staying on track to...
