What's the Rx for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis? Hard Work--And Imagination
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6 The hospital staff wears masks to prevent infection. There is also a state-of-the-art ventilation system. The entire hospital and lab cost less than $500,000.*
*Editor's note: This number has been corrected.
5 Before and after: a tuberculosis laboratory built in Maseru, Lesotho in 2007.
4 Before and after: an old leprosy hospital converted to treat tuberculosis patients. Hind Satti, MDR-TB program director, sits in the hallway of the renovated hospital.
3 A typical road in Lesotho; the nation's population is scattered across rural highlands with poor infrastructure.
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2 [from left] Hind Satti, MDR-TB program director for Partners in Health in Lesotho; Salmaan Keshavjee; Arnold, the driver; and Likhapha Ntlamelle, a community-based care coordinator for PIH in Lesotho on a visit to a patient's home.
1 Salmaan Keshavjee, physician with Partners in Health and chair of the World Health Organization's Green Light Committee.
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