"I want to raise my children, help them to get education and do well in life." Mukhtar writes about his struggle for diagnosis and treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and his hopes and aspirations for his future.
From this point I have to adjust to the 'deaf world'. It’s like learning something totally new, starting your life back on a very different planet…
"Sometimes I cannot believe that I’m alive & cured from MDR-TB" Athong finshes his two-year-long tuberculosis treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Phumeza (22) was diagnosed with XDR TB in June 2010. She had to suspend her studies at the Cape Town technical college to be admitted to hospital…
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Mukhtar Kamchibekov is from Kyrgzstan and is being treated by MSF for MDR-TB. You can also read his blog in Russian.
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Athong lives in Manipur, India. He was diagnosed with TB in 2005 and MDR TB in 2010. He is a driver but had to quit his job when his health deteriorated.
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Grace Lamwaka has had to suspend her agriculture studies in Kitgum, Uganda because she is currently being treated…
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Lucky is 28 years old and was diagnosed with XDR TB in June 2011; she is HIV negative and never had TB before. She is an NHS patient in the United Kingdom.
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Mariam Davtyan (21) lives in Armenia was diagnosed with MDR TB in 2009. Her blog is also published in Russian here.
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Mother of five in the Shiselweni Region of Swaziland. She began MDR-TB treatment in February 2011. Her daughter, Colisile, is also blogging.
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In December 2009 I was diagnosed with TB. The Doctors suggested that it was likely that I picked it up when I was travelling in South Africa…
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Madan is 36 and from Mumbai, India. He has been on treatment for MDR-TB for 9 months and for HIV for 3 years and 4 months..
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38 year old woman in Emakhweleni, a small community in the Shiselweni Region of Swaziland. She began MDR-TB treatment in November 2010.
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Mildred is from the Philippines and has recently recovered from XDR TB. She tells her story here.
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Giblotte sadly died in July 2012 after losing her brave fight against MDR-TB. She was from Central African Republic and blogged in French.
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Opera Churchill is a 34 year old and has multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. He is currently being treated by MSF in Kitgum, Uganda.
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A 25 year old from Swaziland, Colisile began her MDR-TB treatment In January 2011. Her mother, Zanele, is also blogging.
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Я на мероприятии по случаю Всемирного дня борьбы с туберкулезом Прежде всего я хотел бы поблагодарить MSF за организацию мероприятия по случаю Всемирного дня борьбы с туберкулезом. Я очень рад, что меня пригласили, и горжусь тем, что я пациент MSF. Конкурс плакатов на тему борьбы с туберкулезом прошел отлично. В Ошском музее изобразительных [...]
First of all I want to thank MSF for the public event organized in celebration of International World TB Day. I am very glad that I was invited for this day. I can say I am very proud of being the patient of MSF. This event, organized as an art work competition about TB, [...]
Помню ли я реакцию семьи, когда мне было хуже всего? Конечно, помню, я навсегда запомню те дни. Моей жене тяжело было узнать, что я умру. Я помню, как она старалась, чтобы я не видел, как она плачет. Она думала о том, как ей придется одной растить детей. Она не замечала внешнего мира и была погружена [...]
Do I remember my family’s reaction during the worst phase of my disease? Of course I remember and will remember those days forever. It was very difficult for my wife to hear and know that I would die. I remember she was trying not to show me her tears. She was thinking how she will [...]
Меня зовут Мухтар Камчибеков, я родился 7 февраля 1968 года в Кыргызстане. В феврале 2011 года я почувствовал себя плохо, у меня не было сил, повысилась температура, кружилась голова. Я поехал в Ошскую областную больницу, чтобы провериться. Врачи диагностировали эхинококкоз, и 20 февраля мне сделали операцию. После операции мне стало очень плохо и было сложно есть. [...]
