Totally Drug Resistant - Tuberculosis (TDR-TB) video, Dr. Zarir Udwadia
Published by: TEDx Talks
Publication date: March 2017
Dr. Zarir Udwadia shares the story of the suffering of one patient diagnosed with Totally Drug Resistant -Tuberculosis (TDR-TB). His mission is to educate the masses about the difficulties and complexities of the treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis.
Dr. Udwadia is a prolific researcher and has over 125 PubMed indexed publications and 3,000 citations to his credit and is co-author of "Principles of Respiratory Medicine" published by Oxford International.
His recent publication of the first Indian patients with Totally Drug Resistant TB featured on the front pages of Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, the New York Times and on BBC, and served to galvanize great change in the community.
Watch the video via YouTube
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