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Tuesday March 18, 2003, SABC 3 at 9h30 pm -
"Precious
Breaths"
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It’s a
completely curable disease…and yet thousands die of
tuberculosis every day and thousands more get TB over
and over again. In Africa today only Ethiopia and
Nigeria have higher incidences of tuberculosis than
South Africa.
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To
mark the upcoming World TB Day, Special Assignment journeys
to Cape Town’s Tygerberg Children's Hospital. Children
are regularly admitted here with one of the most dangerous
forms of tuberculosis - TB of the brain or TB meningitis.
Doctors in the developed world may see perhaps one case of
TB meningitis in their lifetime.
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The
documentary PRECIOUS BREATHS explores the spread of TB
from adults to children. It shows how grown-ups get
pulmonary TB and spread it in the air when they cough. The
TB germ destroys the lungs and harms other vital organs.
It's incredibly dangerous to children, even those
immunized at birth. We introduce you to adults who never
knew they were infected, and made their own children sick.
If one patient's TB remains untreated, they will infect up
to 15 people a year.
We speak to former TB
patients who completed their drug courses. Today they're
cured. We visit a school where all the children are being
treated for TB. Having them on the premises is seen as the
only sure way to make sure they finish their course of
medicine.
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The
message is clear: Deaths due to TB are needless, because
TB can be cured completely.
This informative and moving
documentary is directed by Anna-Maria Lombard and Mia
Malan.
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page by Steven
Lang
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