Harvard vs. Yale
Tuberculosis Challenge
Join us in fundraising and advocacy to fight for a world with zero deaths from tuberculosis - a curable and preventable disease that still continues to claim the lives of 4,000 people per day.
Challenge Progress
Fundraising progress as of 11:59 AM ET, Wednesday, November 18, 2015
$7,198
Team Harvard - go Crimson!
$460
Team Yale - Boola Boola!
About the Ten Days to Zero TB Campaign
November 13-22, 2015
A Letter from Team Harvard & Team Yale
Dear Friends & Alumni,
Today, more than 4,000 people, including over 200 children, lost their lives to the killer disease of tuberculosis: many, after suffering and fighting for months, many, after already losing friends, parents, and loved ones, many, without ever having a real chance at life’s joys and opportunities.
The greatest tragedy is that all of their deaths could have been prevented. Nobody should have died. TB has been curable and preventable since 1947, yet every 22 seconds, another person dies of tuberculosis. Because 95% of people who die from TB are born into the world’s most impoverished places, these victims along with the 1,500,000 who died last year will likely go unnamed and faceless. But their tragic deaths will not be forgotten, and we will be the voice for those who aren’t lucky enough to have one.
Zero people should die from TB, and we can achieve that by supporting the work of organizations like Partners in Health (PIH) in the fight against TB. That’s why from November 13-22, global citizens across the country are joining the Ten Days to Zero TB campaign to support PIH’s community-based work. We hope you will join the campaign by raising funds and lending your voice to those who need it most. Together, we can put an end to the tragedy of TB.
Thank you very much,Harvard & Yale PIH Engage
We Must End TB Now
Curable and preventable since 1947. Over 1,500,000 deaths in 2015.
In Svay Rieng, Cambodia, a boy experiencing severe pain from TB meningitis is comforted by his mother.
“I’ve seen the best that lies within the human spirit become manifest in the most terrible circumstances. In a small TB ward, in a government hospital, in a remote part of Cambodia, epic suffering was being endured. But also in that humble place existed love on an epic scale. It’s the greatest force and the greatest mystery in the human experience, and as much as anything else, it was keeping this boy alive. Not one of the people I saw had given up hope. Those are the people who need our attention, who are silently crying out for help.”
- James Nachtwey, Photographer
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More Information on Tuberculosis
Articles from PIH Engage
November 17, 2015November 14, 2015New data from the World Health Organization shows that we have allowed a preventable, curable disease to become the world’s biggest communicable killer. The millenniums-old lung disease tuberculosis now outranks even H.I.V./AIDS in the number of lives it claims. The fact is that we’ve been very...November 14, 2015- Who We Are
Harvard PIH Engage
Est. 2014
We're a group of Harvard undergrads dedicated to fighting for the right to health.
Yale PIH Engage
Est. 2013
Yale College Students for PIH Engage was founded last year to spread the word about the right to health and Partners In Health’s work.
Our Sponsors
We gratefully thank our sponsors and collaborators in Cambridge & New Haven for their generous support.
Insomnia Cookies
https://insomniacookies.com/
Insomnia Cookies in Harvard Square has generously agreed to donate 30% of proceeds from purchases made all day on November 18th to Team Harvard!
b.good
http://www.bgood.com/
b.good in Harvard Square has generously agreed to donate 15% of proceeds from dinner 6-8pm on Monday, November 16th to Team Harvard!
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