Inside Lens S2017E13 - OUT OF BREATH

"OUT OF BREATH" follows a small group of international volunteers who travel to North Korea every six months. They work side by side with North Korean doctors to fight the spread of a deadly infectious disease called multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Each visit, the volunteers deliver medicine and check progress, but the heavy lift of treating and caring for the patients is left to the North Korean medical staff. Working together under difficult conditions, the volunteers and North Koreans have forged unexpected bonds and achieved something incredible – one of the highest MDR-TB cure rates in the world.