Online NewsHour: Report | Fighting TB in Bangladesh | March 27, 2008 | PBS
A success story about fighting tuberculosis in Bangladesh!
I recommend watching the video on this page. There is also an audio link and transcript.
One of the things that struck me about his was that this is not really an issue of technology, science or medicine, but of distribution, monitoring and compliance. The skills required for effectiveness are organizational and relational. So many of us are focused on what we know rather than on what our customer, client, consumer or end user actually needs. It is crucial to have direct contact with the people we serve in order to know what and how to provide what is needed.
This TB treatment and prevention program is worth understanding and possibly duplicating for some of our own efforts. Indeed, for some things that we may wish to do, perhaps we would utilize their existing system of people and resources.
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