The ghosts of men and women fill the walls of government hospitals across India. They stare silently, suspended in limbo between the living and the dead. These patients are the infected, victims of a contagion so lethal it kills almost one and a half million people globally every year, and infects a further nine million. Despite an arsenal of drugs, tuberculosis is making a devastating resurgence in one of the world's most populated countries. TB continues to kill two Indians every three minutes.
It's a staggering figure, one that would cause outrage in any European country or the United States of America, but which is just accepted as par for the course in this country. For decades, the Indian government has wrestled with this epidemic, introducing a nationwid...
Title: 101 East - Contagion
Published on Aug 23, 2013
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