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This course is awesome. We got the opportunity to talk about rights (movement, Dignity is real big here, quality of life, health, safety, healthy environment, etc.) and how they relate to varying cases of drug resistant TB. The overall theme is that with issues of health and human rights, there are many layers that need to be addressed. Sometimes adherence is also beyond some people's control. We learned of psychotic side-effects, drug unavailability within the hospital, delayed diagnosis, patient exclusion in terms of informed consent and counseling....all of these things lead to the mismanagement of a highly contagious disease. But there is hope, especially as the Right to Health and Patients Rights are growing issues within the scope of Public Health and Medicine.