The village of Los Chorros lies in a lush valley reached by a dirt track at the end of a mountain road that winds past brick and wooden huts with thatched roofs, and terraced agricultural fields (see webvideo). At the top of a small hill is a yellow concrete building with a corrugated metal roof. This is the home of Marcela Gomez Vasquez, a 44-year-old mother of six from the Indigenous Mayan Tzotzil community. Several years ago Marcela was diagnosed with tuberculosis. She was given a regimen of drugs to take at home. It worked, despite the fact that it was not the closely monitored regimen prescribed by WHO. But her children did notfare as well.Three of them developed growths on their bodies. The mass on the neck of her son Jose Guadalupe, 10 years old, was diagnosed as tuberculosis.
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