One Family\'s Struggle to Get Their Daughter Lifesaving Medication

Khur, Iran

Six-year-old Zahra Dehghanipour suffers from a genetic disease that causes her muscles to atrophy. She wears a painful chest brace to stay upright, and has to be carried up and down the stairs in her family’s two-story home.

Her condition, spinal muscular atrophy, has a drug treatment. But her family faces many hurdles in accessing...