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| name = Shreya Tripathi<br />
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| birth_date = 1998 or 1999<br />
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| death_date = 9 October 2018<br />
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| occupation = Tuberculosis Activist<br />
| years_active = 2016-2018<br />
| known_for = Successful legal battle regarding bedaquiline access to tuberculosis patients<br />
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'''Shreya Tripathi''' (b.1998/1999 - d. 9 October 2018) was an Indian health activist.<br />
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Tripathi was diagnosed with [[tuberculosis]] in 2012.<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/13/politics-protocol-indian-teen-life-in-balance-tb-drug-ruling-shreya-tripathi-tuberculosis-bedaquiline|newspaper=The Guardian|title=Politics and protocol leave Indian teen's life in the balance pending TB drug ruling|author=Amrit Dhillon|date=13 January 2017}}</ref> She was treated with first- and second-line medications, but her strain was found to be [[extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis]] (XDR-TB), rendering the usual treatment ineffective.<ref name=guardian/> She was forced to drop out of school in 2015 due to her illness. By age 18, she had lost so much weight that she measured only {{Convert|55|lbs|kg|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shaikh-Lesko |first1=Rina |title=A Teen's Family Fought To Get Her A Restricted TB Drug — And Won |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/01/19/510433479/a-teens-family-fought-to-get-her-a-restricted-tb-drug-and-won |website=NPR |date=January 19, 2017}}</ref> Her family was forced to travel hundreds of miles from their home in [[Patna]] to a respiratory disease center in [[New Delhi]] in the hopes of getting [[bedaquiline]], a newly developed medication for XDR-TB. She was refused because she was not a resident of New Delhi. The [[Revised National TB Control Program]] (RNTCP) in India declined to provide her with bedaquiline.<ref name=wire>{{cite news|url=https://thewire.in/health/multi-drug-resistant-tb-bedaquiline-deaths|website=The Wire|author=Jennifer Furin|title=TB Killed Shreya Tripathi, But Her Death Could Have Been Avoided|date=30 March 2019}}</ref> With the assistance of [[Anand Grover]], Tripathi filed suit against the RNTCP to force the organization to provide access to the medication.<ref name=wire/> On 20 January 2017, the High Court in Delhi ruled in favour of Tripathi and ordered that she receive the drug.<ref name=stat/> The court further ordered that bedaquiline be made available at 70 Indian treatment centres; it had previously only been obtainable at six.<ref name=lewis/> Although her suit was successful, the treatment delay resulted in irreversible scarring to Tripathi's lungs, resulting in her death at age 19.<ref name=wire/><br />
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[[Stephen Lewis]] highlighted Tripathi's story in a 2017 keynote address.<ref name=lewis>{{cite web|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/555cbacfe4b0e33efddfe519/t/5967d466893fc0a73c74a5a8/1499976807174/20170224+NA+Union+Conference+Vancouver+final.pdf|title=Keynote by Stephen Lewis delivered at the 21st Annual Conference of The Union - North America Region, Vancouver, Canada, February 24, 2017}}</ref> In an article written after Tripathi's death, Lewis and [[Jennifer Furin]] suggested that Tripathi "belongs with [[Malala Yousafzai|Malala]] and [[Greta Thunberg|Greta]] in the pantheon of teenagers whose unswerving principles have brought the powerful to their knees".<ref name=stat>{{Cite news|url=https://www.statnews.com/2019/03/24/india-should-heed-a-teenagers-historic-fight-for-lifesaving-tuberculosis-treatment/|website=Stat News|author=Stephen Lewis and Jennifer Furin|date=24 March 2019|title=India should heed a teenager's historic fight for lifesaving tuberculosis treatment}}</ref><br />
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[[John Green]] discussed Tripathi's story in his non-fiction book [[Everything Is Tuberculosis|Everything is Tuberculosis]] and highlighted her experience in his newsletter "We're Here"<ref>{{Cite web |last=John |first=Hank and |title=Wet Sand and Duck Art |url=https://werehere.beehiiv.com/p/wet-sand-and-duck-art?last_resource_guid=Post:4d6430ed-8052-458b-b62b-517c99ce94f7 |access-date=2025-03-21 |website=We're Here |language=en}}</ref> on 21 March 2025. Tripathi was noted to have been a fan of [[The Fault in Our Stars|The Fault In Our Stars]], Green's novel centered around terminal cancer patients, of which she was reading at the time of her death.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bender |first=Maddie |date=2024-10-30 |title=Can John Green Make You Care About Tuberculosis? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/30/science/john-green-tuberculosis-nerdfighters.html |access-date=2025-03-21 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><br />
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