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Global Activism: Treating and Preventing TB in India

Global Activism: Treating and Preventing TB in India

It's Thursday and time for our Global Activism series. Each Thursday we hear about an individual who's decided to work to make the world a better place.

One-third of all Tuberculosis (TB) patients in the world belong to India . In 2006, there were 2.2 million new cases of this disease in the country, up from 2 million the previous year. The disease causes 400,000 deaths annually.

Sandeep Ah-who-juh and Dr. Shelly Batra are the founders of Operation Asha. Operation Asha runs 34 TB treatment centers and a community health clinic in the slums of Delhi .

Jerome talked with Shelly and Sandeep about Operation Asha this past September.  And at that time, they were preparing for rapid expansion of their TB treatment programs in Delhi .

Jerome asked Shelly how Operation Asha was doing since we last talked.

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