Ukranian

TB in Ukraine: How we’re empowering patients with “self-administered therapy”

Patient support advisor Olga explains how a new approach is helping tuberculosis patients cope with a difficult drug treatment

24 Feb 2020 / 3 minute read

Svitlana

TB blogger

TB&Me: “This could happen to anyone – the stigma must be overcome”

Svitlana recently started treatment at the Tuberculosis hospital in Zhytomyr. Two months since her diagnosis, she describes her experience so far.

24 Feb 2020 / 2 minute read

Nataliya Klymyk

TB blogger

TB&Me: "It was just a routine check-up"

Nataliya was working as a shop assistant when she fell ill with what she thought was a perisistent cold. Four years later, she is fighting extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis with the help of a new treatment that's offering hope...

24 Jan 2019 / 4 minute read

Ruslan Lysiura

TB blogger

TB & Me: "The hospital reminded me of some kind of a jail"

Ruslan is from Ukraine and is currently being treated for drug-resistant tuberculosis. He shares his story...

16 May 2017 / 1 minute read

Artem

TB blogger

TB & Me: 'You need to get treatment and believe in yourself'

Whilst in prison Artem is diagnosed with drug resistent TB. In his blog he describes embarking treatment and the difficulties that presents.

22 Mar 2017 / 5 minute read

Halyna Uvarenko

TB blogger

TB & Me: Facing your fears

After experiencing severe side-effects to the injectible medication she was taking for multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, Halyna, 55, got a new prescription and is now preparing to continue the shorter treatment offered by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) at home.

08 Feb 2016 / 4 minute read