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Everything Is Tuberculosis

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What’s it about?

Through the story of a teenage boy in Sierra Leone, John Green reveals how tuberculosis exposes the fault lines of global inequality, history, and our shared humanity.

You’ll learn

  • TB is a lens for understanding injustice
  • Why the disease persists despite cures
  • The moral cost of looking away
  • How connection drives change