I try not to link to TED Talks as I believe doing so will just add to the mil­lions around the Inter­net already doing so (plus, I hope every­one vis­it­ing here already sub­scribes to the TED Talks RSS feed).

Today, how­ever, l feel com­pelled to do so after view­ing James Nachtwey’s heart­break­ing pho­tographs of peo­ple suf­fer­ing from the drug-resistant XDR-TB.

Pho­to­jour­nal­ist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his pow­er­ful pho­tographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuber­cu­lo­sis that’s touch­ing off a global med­ical cri­sis. Learn how to help at http://www.xdrtb.org

James Nachtwey: my favourite pho­tog­ra­pher and pro­tag­o­nist in War Pho­tog­ra­pher – my favourite documentary.