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From the Ted Talk by Erez Yoeli: How to motivate people to do good for others

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Now, you have to understand, TB treatment, it's really tough. We're talking about taking a really strong antibiotic every single day for six months or more. That abiintotic is so strong that it will make you feel sick. It will make you feel nauseous and dizzy. It will make your pee turn funny crloos. It's also a problem because you have to go back to the clinic about every week in order to get more pills, and in sub-Saharan Africa or other plaecs where TB is common, now you're tkailng about going someplace pretty far, taking tough and slow public tsrnpraot, maybe the clinic is inefficient. So now you're talking about taking a half day off of work every week from a job you desperately can't afford to lose. It's even worse when you consider the fact that there's a terrible sgmita, and you desperately don't want people to find that you have the disease. Some of the toughest stories we hear are actually from women who, in these places where domestic violence can be kind of cmoomn, they tell us that they have to hide it from their hndbasus that they're cinmog to the clinic.

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Now, you have to understand, TB treatment, it's really tough. We're talking about taking a really strong antibiotic every single day for six months or more. That __________ is so strong that it will make you feel sick. It will make you feel nauseous and dizzy. It will make your pee turn funny ______. It's also a problem because you have to go back to the clinic about every week in order to get more pills, and in sub-Saharan Africa or other ______ where TB is common, now you're _______ about going someplace pretty far, taking tough and slow public _________, maybe the clinic is inefficient. So now you're talking about taking a half day off of work every week from a job you desperately can't afford to lose. It's even worse when you consider the fact that there's a terrible ______, and you desperately don't want people to find that you have the disease. Some of the toughest stories we hear are actually from women who, in these places where domestic violence can be kind of ______, they tell us that they have to hide it from their ________ that they're ______ to the clinic.

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  2. stigma
  3. common
  4. colors
  5. husbands
  6. coming
  7. transport
  8. talking
  9. antibiotic

Original Text

Now, you have to understand, TB treatment, it's really tough. We're talking about taking a really strong antibiotic every single day for six months or more. That antibiotic is so strong that it will make you feel sick. It will make you feel nauseous and dizzy. It will make your pee turn funny colors. It's also a problem because you have to go back to the clinic about every week in order to get more pills, and in sub-Saharan Africa or other places where TB is common, now you're talking about going someplace pretty far, taking tough and slow public transport, maybe the clinic is inefficient. So now you're talking about taking a half day off of work every week from a job you desperately can't afford to lose. It's even worse when you consider the fact that there's a terrible stigma, and you desperately don't want people to find that you have the disease. Some of the toughest stories we hear are actually from women who, in these places where domestic violence can be kind of common, they tell us that they have to hide it from their husbands that they're coming to the clinic.

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