Maybe you knew about this already, but I just found out this morning. Thembi Ngubane, the South African Radio Diarist who spoke so candidly and beautifully about her life with HIV/AIDS, died of drug resistant TB earlier this month. She died within a few days of diagnosis. Thembi was 24 years old, and such a powerful advocate.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105017959
I learned about her for the first time last fall, and was hooked. I emailed the link to friends, shared it on Facebook, and listened many times during this past year when I felt like I needed to hear her again.
http://www.radiodiaries.org/aidsdiary/index.html
TB is the number one killer of people with HIV. Here you can watch James Nachtwey's slideshow and take action in the fight against XDRTB:
http://xdrtb.org/
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