When 30-year-old Dalene von Delft was still a medical student she contracted multi-drug-resistant
tuberculosis (MDR-TB), probably from constant exposure to patients with the disease, although she cannot
be sure about that.
Earlier this year, through USaid in Washington, DC, TB Proof was awarded the Centre for Global Health and Diplomacy
Award for distinguished work in the field of global health diplomacy. Von Delft is a member of a growing global movement
to bring MDR-TB into the media spotlight. The disease recently made the cover of Time magazine. In the meantime, Von
Delft and TB Proof have been holding teaching sessions with most of the medical and allied health students at the
universities of Stellenbosch (where she lives with her husband) and Cape Town, educating them about the risks of
contracting TB and how to protect themselves.