A quote from a patient in Rocinha to the community health workers:
I can die by the bullet, but I will never die by TB because you come here
My research project for the summer, since some of you have been asking, concerns the role of community health workers in community and city health services in Rio de Janeiro, particularly as related to TB treatment and prevention. I’m conducting my research in two regions of Rio: (1) Rocinha, which is supposedly South America’s largest slum (favela, in Portuguese); and (2) the northern zone of the city, which has recently established its community health agents program. My work in Brasil is being funded by the Center for TB Research and by PSU Med’s Medical Student Research International Award.
Our apartment in Copacabana…. there are three of us living here for the next month, two Hopkins PhD students and me, all working for the Center for TB Research.
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