This is what it will take to beat a deadly disease
John Green, in his book "Everything is Tuberculosis", says "Where is the cure? it is where the disease is not. Where is the disease, it is where the cure is not". So the tech is exciting, but only if we fix the deeper issues.
This film explores 1) Some of the tech at the forefront of fighting TB. AI powered chest xray detection with Qure.ai, AI prediction from lung sounds from AI Diagnostics, the M72 vaccine from Wellcome Trust. 2) What really matters to people and communities? The perspective of a TB survivor and community health worker in rural Kenya about the realities for people with TB and what is needed beyond the tech 3) How we need to avoid the mistakes of the past
To understand what matters to communities and make the right choices.
It's not just about throwing tech at problems, but understanding people and communities. Stigma, poverty and health inequities. Being intentional and seeing tech within the broader ecosystem.
With thanks to our guests Enla Fees, Qure.ai Ana Cehovin, Wellcome Trust John Wabwire Shikuku, Community Health Impact Coalition Max Rath, AI Diagnostics Dino Rech, Audere Africa
