Business, Disease, Family, Health, Human Rights, International Day, Video
Mine workers in sub-Saharan Africa have the highest rates of tuberculosis in the world, with more than 760 000 new cases per year connected to the mining industry. Undermined explores the river of TB flowing out from the mines, and why a vaccine is critical to the...
Disease, Documentary, Health, International Day, Medium < 30m, Video
Natalie Skipper survived multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, but not before it flipped her life upside down. We weave together Natalie’s story – which took place in Nashville, Tennessee – with a global perspective on the pervasive threat posed by TB around the...
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...
