TB
I found out that someone I meet recently has just been diagnoised with TB. She works for an AIDS project and works really hard to support her children as a single mother.
TB is treatable there is a program by the World Health Organization called DOTS. Yet 1000 people die from it in India alone, that is really depressing. This should not be.
We have the drugs and the knowledge to do something to stop TB why aren’t we doing anything?
I wonder if it’s patent protection from the big drug companies, stopping cheaper Indian versions of the drugs entering the market place. Is it like Anti-retrovirals that help people with AIDS, where people argue that these ignorant villages wouldn’t be able to maintain there treatment.
I do not know, but I am angry. I don’t know what I can do for these people. I don’t know what I should do either. So many worth wild causes in the world.
So I sit here in India, next to my AC in my nice middle class flat. And reasure myself that I am already doing enough… Pretending that there is such a thing as enough.
Delhi, India Stuff, Poverty Sucks, Pretentious drivel, Social Justice
at least you’re in india. i’m in the US in my middle class home wondering what can i do! doesn’t feel like i’m likly to really do anything to really help in my next 2 years either. i don’t know if i get it. what else can i do.
I don’t know Pete. I think awareness is a big thing. Taking the time to acknowledge the crap in this world.
Prayer is a good solid start.
The thing about being in India is that I get a lot more reminders about poverty and the associated problems. I don’t really know if I am any more effective here in helping the poor then I was back home.
enjoying hearing your journey one geek. Not sur eyou will get this comment coz all other comments seem to have disappeared into the wilds of cyberspace, but I’ll keep trying.