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Book pickup begins Tuesday, November 11 in The Launch Pad. Ages 14 and older. The story of a Sierra Leonean boy weaves through this study of how tuberculosis has, and continues, to shape the world.
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
In 2019, John Green met Henry, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone while traveling with Partners in Health. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first visit to Lakka, Green has become a vocal and dynamic advocate for increased access to treatment and wider awareness of the healthcare inequities that allow this curable, treatable infectious disease to also be the deadliest, killing 1.5 million people every year.
R = Registration required.
AGE GROUP: | Adult |
EVENT TYPE: | Launch Pad | Adult |