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It runs in the family

One of the brothers in this family caught MDR-Tuberculosis and passed it to the remaining members of the group. I visited them last November to document their story. It was really sad. The boy was fired from his job due to his illness, and they were struggling to make a living. The five people pictured here, along with two others, live in this very very small room in the suburbs of Cairo, Egypt.

 

*image taken for World Health Organization, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office.

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Uploaded on April 15, 2007
Taken on November 9, 2008