Treating TB is hard, it is worse if you are a woman
TB is also a highly stigmatised disease making it very difficult for patients enduring treatment. In this episode, we look at how the stigma makes it ...
Gasping For Breath
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Gasping For Breath is a deep-dive reported narrative podcast series on tuberculosis in India. It is India's first podcast on tuberculosis hosted by senior health journalist Menka Rao.
How the private sector can help battle TB?
The private sector treats about 70% of TB patients. In this episode, we go to Patna which is successfully running a programme in engaging the private ...
Why TB patients aren't getting the drugs they need
India has the highest number of patients suffering from drug-resistant tuberculosis in the world. However, the access to newer TB drugs which have so ...
The connection between drug use, HIV and TB
In this episode, we travel to Manipur and understand the risks of TB infection with the drug user community. The drug user community has, by and large...
Kerala model of TB control
The Joint Monitoring Mission recently visited Kerala and were all praises for its work in TB control with aims to eliminate the disease. In this episo...
How one man and a simple box are engaging the community to fight against TB
All it takes is a big box which cannot go unnoticed to stir a conversation about what's in/on it. In Jharkhand, that's what clicked in Hazaribagh dist...
Tuberculosis and human rights
In this episode, we speak to human rights activist, Allan Maleche from Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN) which has suppor...
Bolo Didi - By the community & for the community of TB survivors
In this special episode, Suno India editor, Padma Priya, brings an interview with Nandita Venkatesan, one of the founders of Bolo Didi. Bolo Didi led ...
Why TB remains difficult to diagnose
This episode will describe the various problems faced by both patients and doctors in diagnosing TB. TB is tough to diagnose, and the difficulties onl...
The crucial link between malnutrition and TB
In this episode, we historically trace the importance of nutrition for the treatment of tuberculosis which disappeared as soon as the medicines were f...