One tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis is hard to swallow, let alone four. Yurii, 33, thought he had beaten TB after overcoming the disease three times and being declared cured. Then he fell ill again...
Motherhood always has its challenges but what happens when your children are diagnosed with a highly infectious disease? Zukhro shares her experience caring for her young son and daughter as they undergo treatment for tuberculosis at an MSF-supported hospital in Tajikistan.
Polina, 28, and Andrey, 30, had drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). Together, the young couple from Belarus are taking part in TB PRACTECAL, a cutting-edge project that aims to find better treatments for the disease. Polina shares their story...
When nine-year-old Mukhamadjon was diagnosed with extrapulmonary (located outside of the lungs) multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), his grandmother Saida supported him through two years of grueling treatment. Here, she shares their story.
When Gulnora's grandma died of tuberculosis, her family didn't realise they could be at risk. She blogs about helping her children through a new model of treatment...
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...
Maddy is a student in the UK who is currently going through treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. While ten million people are affected with tuberculosis every year, treatment options for drug-resistant strains are limited and side-effects can be severe. Maddy shares his story so far…
Abatgul is a journalist and a tuberculosis (TB) patient advocate. In 2008 she was diagnosed with a drug-resistant strain of TB, and began a long, difficult course of treatment, eventually making a full recovery. In this post, she reflects on what the experience has taught her about happiness...
Today's TB&Me blogger lives in Georgia, and has recently been cured of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. A lack of research has meant that very few drugs are available for this kind of TB, and the ones that exist cause powerful side-effects. Having got through the long, difficult treatment, she shares her inspiring story….
