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With his partner, Dr. Anne Goldfeld, a Harvard biomedical researcher, and American Brian Heidel, Sok formed the CHC on a shoestring in 1994, two years after he was repatriated to Cambodia from the refugee camps. From the start, their target was TB. The disease takes an estimated 2 million lives a year globally, and Cambodia has one of the highest rates in the world, 508 cases per 100,000 people. The tragedy of TB is that it can be cured with a six-to-eight-month series of daily antibiotics, but interrupted treatment can lead to the rise of multi...
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