I’m not one for chain mails or multiple petition signing websites. But when an organisation that I respect, and value for significant value in my own personal and professional life, such as TED, promotes such a campaign, I’m happy to share.

The thing about XDR-TB, and the images you see will move you, is that it’s treatable. Easily treatable. We just need to move away from our hollywood produced movies and TV myopia and use the remarkable power of the technology we love to see the real picture of human suffering in the world today. Then we should act.

I don’t believe that acting means everyone should give up their lifestyles and all their possessions and become poor themselves. Although I’m sure some are called to that. I do believe though that those of us “haves” should give, sacrificially, to the “have not’s.” This isn’t only financially, but also your time and talents. Often it’s giving your effort, skills, and time that has a greater impact than the money you’d earn in that same time.

Anyway, onto XDR-TB. Watch. Share. Sign Up.

Change the world.

R42