Microfinance For Impoverished Communities Reduces TB Risks

Published: Sept. 7, 2009, 12:22 p.m.

b'Carlton Evans of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explains to Peter Goodwin how his research project, supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), has succeeded in reducing risk factors for TB in households living on less than a dollar a day in the Ventanilla district of Lima, Peru. A microfinance scheme\\u2014providing small loans to help people use their skills to earn a living\\u2014has resulted in big reductions of adverse factors associated with causing tuberculosis.'