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An Unexpected Pandemic Side Effect In Peru: A Comeback For TB


Socios En Salud Peru Branch
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A young girl waits as her chest X-ray is taken in a TB Móvil van clinic in Lima, Peru.
Socios En Salud Peru Branch
In late February 2020, Martin Valencia Garcia was working as a community agent in Independencia, one of the denser districts of Lima, Peru. His job was to help people access tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment with the TB Móvil program, part of a larger effort led by the nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health to drastically reduce TB rates in Lima s at-risk communities. TB, which most commonly affects the lungs, is one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world, and Peru, according to data from 2017, has the highest rate of drug-resistant TB in the Americas. ....

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