The human stories behind the deadly infection TB
A deadly airborne disease
is making a dramatic comeback in Swaziland. Passed on by a simple cough or
sneeze, TB is travelling fast and now new, multi-drug resistant variants are
starting to appear all over the world.
Multi-BAFTA winning
film-maker Jezza Neumann creates a very intimate account of the crippling
effects of MDR-TB. We witness victims from two families battling with the
disease over the course of a year. We start in deep rural Swaziland near the
border of South Africa. Here lives Bheki, a builder who is fanatical about
football and who recently learnt that both he and his sister have MDR-TB. As
time passes his sister’s condition deteriorates and Bheki starts to become
increasingly depressed and suicidal.
