Hi to all!It’s been 8 months since I last wrote a blog for TB and ME. I became busy with my new work. I promise to continue narrating my experiences in TB but for now, let me share with you my story as written by John Donnelly of the Global Post. He interviewed me sometime [...]
Family, Featured, hope, isolation, resistance, Side effects, TB, tests, treatment, work, XDR TB
My advice to the community, and to the people of the whole world? I know TB is stigmatised; in the workplace, in the shops, everywhere people go, because TB is linked a lot with HIV/AIDS. I want to tell people that they should not be saying that having one means you have another. I know [...]
Hi all. When I was first diagnosed in hospital, I didn’t know a whole lot about TB. In Australia it’s very rare, and although I had seen people in movies with TB, or heard of people dying from it many years ago, I had no idea of what it would mean for me that I [...]
christiaan van vuuren, fully sick, fully sick rapper, Hospital, MDR-TB, medicins sans frontieres, MSF, patient, quarantine, superbugs, TB
My name is Jabulile Sithole. I am 38 years old and live at Emakhweleni, a small community in the Shiselweni Region, southern part of Swaziland. In 2008, I developed a constant cough, which would not go away even when I took cough mixtures and cold and flu tablets. I later started sweating profusely at night [...]
Family, HIV/AIDS, MDR-TB, Motivation, Side effects, Support Network, Swaziland, TB
Colisile: I was first found to have TB in 2008. I took tablets for six months and was told that I was fine and stopped the treatment. In 2010 I fell sick again with the same symptoms I had had in 2008. I went to Edwaleni Clinic and was found to have TB again. I [...]
Family, HIV/AIDS, Hospital, MDR-TB, Side effects, Swaziland, TB, Transportation
