“I would be deaf if it wasn’t for the continuous research and development of innovative medications,” says Dalene von Delft....
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TB Proof is a registered nonprofit, non-governmental organisation, founded in 2012 by South African health care workers and students after multiple personal experiences with occupational tuberculosis.
This grassroots healthcare and TB survivor initiative has three main goals:
1. To “TB PROOF” our colleagues, students and patients by creating greater awareness of and protection against occupational, nosocomial (healthcare facility-based) and community-based TB transmission through education and activism.
2. To destigmatize all forms of TB – draw particular attention to drug-resistant TB (DR TB) and occupational TB by collecting and disclosing proof of an alarming rise in cases. HCWs living with HIV are at particularly high risk and need special consideration and support.
3. To mobilize national and global resources through patient and civil society advocacy to help address shortcomings in TB prevention and treatment strategies, both for HCWs and the population they serve.
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"They battled the deadly MDR-TB epidemic, treating dying patients against the policies of the World Health Organization and later went on to become the first doctors to treat AIDS patients in rural se...
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s New Passion Project: How Three Young Doctors Saved Millions of Lives
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The documentary is a passion project for Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who were executive producers on the film
Arne von Delft shared a photo to TB PROOF's Timeline.
Tomorrow, Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board Chair and South African Minister of Health, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, World Health Organization (WHO), Director General, Dr.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and ...
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Today, patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis have to endure horrible, long, toxic therapies with poor outcomes. Hopefully, this will change soon!