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...founded, the Cambodian Health Committee (CHC), off the ground--the only work that was harder than Khmer Rouge re-education. The one thing Sok Thim, 48, takes absolutely seriously is the right of every patient--no matter how poor, no matter how desperate-- to receive treatment for TB...
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...
...been to the continent. In September he flew to Rwanda to spend a few days with his longtime hero, Dr. Paul Farmer. There, he got a crash course in Third World medicine, interviewing beleaguered health officials, visiting families crowded into thatched huts and shadowing Farmer as he treated AIDS, TB and malaria patients with food and life-saving drugs. "This is how medicine is supposed to work," says Elmer-DeWitt. "After three days, I was ready to quit my day job and apply to medical school...
...report dedicated to global health, you will meet some of these defenders, models of not just charity but also ingenuity, nerve, patience and faith. There is the doctor building clinics in Rwanda, the motorcycle riders carrying medicines across roadless stretches of Uganda, the survivor of the refugee camps fighting TB in Cambodia, the rape victim who speaks out about AIDS to young people in conservative Muslim villages in Nigeria. There are the grandmothers in Nepal with their little bags of vitamin A, fighting infant mortality; the nutritionist in Honduras teaching mothers hygiene and food handling; the backpack medics who slip...
...eloquently of their efforts to combat AIDS in their countries. This November TIME and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plan to hold a Global Health Summit in New York City, bringing together medical experts, politicians and business leaders to discuss new ways to combat diseases like AIDS, malaria, TB, malnutrition and cholera. We will also publish a special issue on global health that month, coinciding with W for Survival, a six-part prime-time PBS special co-produced by WGBH's NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions...