Dr. Jayant Banavaliker, a leading TB doctor in Delhi, describes his daily struggle to save patients using outmoded tools: inaccurate diagnostics, drugs that can be toxic and ineffective against the pathogen, and a vaccine that offers only limited protection. In South Africa, Phumeza Tisile tells the harrowing story of her near-death experience with extensively drug-resistant TB.
This video is produced by Aeras - a nonprofit biotech advancing tuberculosis vaccines. http://www.aeras.org/exposed