Lizo Nobanda is one of the TB centers here around Khayelitsha – not that I know of many others. Well I belong here. I am proud to say that, because all of us have the same disease and there is no discrimination amongst us. And merely just that is why I say I belong. I [...]
I have actually improved a lot. I was in isolation. Now I have started to go out and sit under the tree. Some of my friends come and see me. However, some still don’t know whether I’m improving or not and they still fear me. There is still some stigma and they think that if [...]
The exciting news for me over the past month has been the result of my last sputum test. I recently received a third sputum negative result. The doctor told me they are waiting for confirmation of these results from Mbabane (national reference laboratory). Once confirmed, then I will stop taking injections at the end of [...]
community, HIV/AIDS, injections, MDR-TB, sputum, Support Network, tuberculosis, work
