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, [...]
My name is Mukhtar Kamchibekov, and I was born on 7th February, 1968 in Kyrgyzstan. In February of 2011, I felt bad, exhausted, had fever, dizziness. I went to Osh Oblast Hospital to have a check-up. The doctors diagnosed me with echinococcus and on February 20th I had surgery. After surgery I started to [...]
Few weeks back I did a manifesto, alongside Dr Jenny and XDR-TB patients who attend the support group here at Lizo (Nobanda). We wrote the manifesto so that we could get a word out there mainly on the things that we as patients demand from the people responsible for giving treatment to whose affected and [...]
I’ve been drinking and using every kind of drugs, I’ve been four or five times in ATT [Anti Tuberculosis Treatment], but I never finished my course, until I became MDR [multidrug resistant]. During my two-year-long treatment I faced many difficulties, I had mental and physical problems. Many times I wanted to give up but I [...]
There has been a slight problem receiving the clofazimine in the clinic but other than that everything is back to normal again. So you know, MSF is only delivering the linezolid, we get the other meds from the government. I’ve lost count with the negative sputum results I’ve been receiving lately. Things are looking rather [...]
