“Well-known and influential photojournalist James Nachtwey won the TED Prize last year, and as part of his award, he made a wish for help – help in bringing a story to light that he felt was important and underreported. The subject of this story is a new, dangerous type of tuberculosis called Extreme Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. Tubercolisis is both preventable and curable, but inadequate treatment has been driving the emergence of XDR-TB, especially in developing nations. Tuberculosis is not a disease of the past – in 2007 alone, 1.7 million people died from TB – it is the leading killer of people infected with HIV. Nachtwey’s wish was that he could break this story, and demonstrate proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.”

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