Tuberculosis documentary "Disease in your luggage"
The film "Tuberculosis - the disease in your luggage" by Christian Hornung and Anke Petersen from Hamburg and Mihai Dragolea from Bucharest was made as part of the RoGer-TB project. The documentary aims to raise awareness of tuberculosis (TB) and help destigmatize the disease.
The focus is on TB in people with a migration background. The story of two patients is described: Grigore-Gabriel, who came to Germany from Romania looking for work and then contracted TB, and Caleb, a student from Nigeria who was studying in Ukraine and fell ill there when war broke out.
The RoGer-TB project is part of a program of the German Federal Ministry of Health to promote international health(GHPP), which aims to improve cross-border care for TB patients between Romania and Germany. The Research Center Borstel and the DZK were involved on the German side. Cooperation with the Marius Nasta Institute of Pulmonology and the National Public Health Institute in Romania was intended to strengthen the fight against tuberculosis in both countries.
