The recent emergence of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in South Africa is not only the result of poor treatment adherence by TB patients. It stems from years of neglect endured by TB programmes throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The current scale of the region’s drug resistance challenge is poorly understood, and African TB programmes are […]
They either get it, or they don’t
Words are so meaningless, so far off of pivotal that it scares me. But then, sometimes just one solitary word makes all the difference to someone who’s willing, conscientiously or not, to listen and process it. I guess it all depends on the person who’s hearing the words you have to say. They either get it, or they […]
So I Don’t Know That Much…
I’d like to be able to say, officially, that the abundance and compilation of experiences and different moments and feelings that I’ve had thus far in my life have all, in their own way, meant something to me, taught me something about myself or something in life. I wish that I could truthfully say that […]
Photos Raise TB Awareness
A community project in northern Thailand named TB Photovoice Thailand is using photos and stories to tackle often hidden issues surrounding TB and HIV infection, diagnosis, treatment and coping mechanisms. The project is proving that a picture can indeed speak a thousand words, but even more than that, it can help influence social change. […]
Campaign against girls education gets momentum in Swat
By Shaheen Buneri MINGORA: The campaign launched by a religious clerk thorough his FM channel against girls education is getting momentum as hundreds of girls students have stopped attending their schools on the advice of their elders. Maulana Fazllullah, a religious clerk with extremist veiws and son-in-law of Maulana Sufi Muhammad, chief of the defunct […]
Fortune Cookies, and the Like
Except she wasn’t like That at all. She just wasn’t. She was so many things other than That, so many other things that she knew, she knew knew knew, if other people knew they would think about her, and things, more than once. Upon knowing, they would shake some sort of previous image, that prior opinion, out of […]