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STOPPING TUBERCULOSIS (TB) IS EVERYONE’S RESPONSIBILITY
By Rachel C. Orduño, Border TB Photovoice Participant
 On March 24, 2008 – World TB Day – health activists around the globe
will spread the message “I am stopping TB…and so can you.” As a
tuberculosis survivor, it is a mission I take to heart and a message I
feel compelled to take to the streets.
According to the World Health Organization, one third of the Earth’s
population is infected with this contagious disease and is at risk for
developing active TB. Left untreated, TB can be fatal. It is a
worldwide epidemic that knows no borders. Anyone breathing can be
infected.
At 35, I was diagnosed with diabetes. Within a year, my latent TB
infection developed into the active disease. Susceptibility to TB is
higher with diabetes, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, smoking and other
addictions, malnourishment, and pregnancy.
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Welcome to the Amaya-Lacson TB PhotoVoice Project.
The TB PhotoVoice Project provides cameras to tuberculosis (TB) affected community members (survivors, caregivers, friends, family) who take photographs that help them identify and improve their communities. The photographs represent what is happening in the participants’ lives and serve as a point for discussion about what can be done to change the present situation in regards to TB, stigma, education and related issues. These photographs and their accompanying narratives give a face and voice to TB.
TB PhotoVoice Pictures and Voices Have the Power to:
Dispel myths and stigmas about tuberculosis.
Change the future for our children so that can they live in a TB free world.
Empower those behind the camera.
Change a global mindset about tuberculosis.
Be part of the solution to eliminate global TB.
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