Africa: Global Fund News Flash Special - World TB Day

[Global Fund] Elder Cualez has spent 11 years serving a drug sentence in a prison in Honduras. In its narrow and overcrowded corridors, he found his calling. Elder is a volunteer TB counsellor for fellow inmates, participating in an innovative partnership that brings together law enforcement authorities, local hospitals, churches and inmates to provide treatment to a vulnerable population that has long been neglected. "I saw the need. My fellow inmates were suffering," Elder explained.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news