I recently came across an article in the International Herald Tribune describing how a grassroots effort that uses ordinary housewives as health workers has managed to dramatically increase TB detection rates. In Bangladesh, where private groups have stepped in to take charge of the country’s national tuberculosis treatment program to compensate for the government’s corrupt [...]
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Bangladeshi housewives tackle TB
Posted in Asia, developing countries, non-profit, women, tagged Asia, bangladesh, public health, tuberculosis, women on 16 October 2007 | 1 Comment »