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Stuff

Here are the Tests

I don’t want this to sound like a complaint, but people could not stop telling us about their stuff. Every lab tech and pharmacist. Every community and social worker. I am not a medical professional and half of these things were just words that I didn’t understand, but my goodness were they happy about the stuff they’ve got. 

One way to look at that is to assume it’s because people wanted to let me know that donor money is well spent. There are probably donors out there who need and want that reassurance, perhaps because they’ve had bad experiences in the past or their unconscious bias is telling them they need to check up on any resources shared with poor people.

There is however one form of stuff that I was and remain interested in and that’s the multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) tests and the machine that uses them. Some readers of this will be well aware of the #TimeFor5 campaign to get the cost of these tests reduced to $5 per test from $15 per test, which is, depending on whom you ask, somewhere between a 300%-500% profit . 

These tests are the difference between following a treatment plan that will cure your TB and one that can ravage your body while the TB you have is still killing you. Over a million and half people needlessly die from TB every year solely because of lack of access to the right tests and medication. By ‘access’ I don’t mean transportation or the ability of a medical facility to handle the tests nor do I mean that not enough tests exist. The resources physically exist. They simply aren’t available to everyone who needs them because a pharmaceutical company decided that the poor people of the world were the right folks to squeeze knowing they don't have many voices to fight for them.

If you don’t know about it, it’s because most of your exposure, no pun intended, to TB as an illness probably comes from historical fiction and you, like many, think of TB as a disease of the past and/or something that affects only a small handful of people in tiny, isolated places. Let me point out that a ‘population’ of 1.6 million dead is far from small and that the vast majority of cases occur within a day’s transport of an international airport. 

The most recent successes in getting test and drug prices reduced have come from social pressure in the form of tweets, letters to representatives, and direct contact with the companies themselves to let them know that gross profiteering off the lives of vulnerable people is unacceptable. See the TBFighters for more information or look to Doctors without Borders or PIH .

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Sierra Leone/Salone and Togo are two small countries in West Africa totally far apart from each other have the same independence day. Who knew?

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Same - Giving Tuesday

My journey home to England began on an overnight flight to Paris and after a busy week, I went to sleep quickly if not for very long. When I woke up, various parts of my body had fallen asleep and were painfully reminding me to lean the other way in my seat. I shifted and let my mind drift. 

I’m one of those people who thinks a lot in images, like a movie running in my head. I wanted to remind myself of what I’d seen at the MCOE site so I could solidify it and be able to report to the wider Nerdfighter community as well as my friends and family who've become regular donors (and vocal supporters even if they lack the funds). I recalled walking into the South Ward and seeing the nearly complete nurses station in the center of the first room. At that moment, I gasped because I could see the virtual fly-through that Build Health International had shared two years ago lay itself over to blend with the reality in front of me. On the plane, in my semi-dreaming state, that image became more real. I could see the room complete with beds and those plastic sided baby cots. Then I could see Sierra Leonean people and babies in those beds with nurses moving around them. 

Suddenly, I started to cry, something I had not done all week during any facility visit despite thinking I would. I was crying because it looked the same as the ward my sons and I were on in America. It looked the same as the ones where I visited my sister-in-law in England. The same. It should look the same. The women of Kono, of greater Sierra Leone, of every place in the world regardless of poverty, deserve no less. 

Dr Barrie told us, and we heard it from others too, that Dr Paul Farmer wanted this same-ness. He wanted the hospitals serving the poor to be beautiful because why should the poor be in a stark, barren or ugly environment just because they are poor. He wanted the staff and the stuff, particularly the medicines and treatments, to be the same. Everyone at Partners in Health wants the systems and the social supports to be the same, and in some cases better when you compare them to a for-profit system. People in poverty do not deserve less because they are poor. No one deserves less than total access to the human right of full and complete medical care. 

I want to return to the MCOE at some point, either when it’s complete or not long thereafter, so I can see my vision from the plane in reality. They better have some tissues handy.

If you've made it this far, thanks. If you'd like to donate to PIH today, on Giving Tuesday, I'll match your donation of any amount. Just message me with a pic of your gift! If you want to give specifically to the MCOE/Maternal Centre of Excellence, here's the link to do that.

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