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World TB Day: A Patient’s Perspective
The following is an e-mail circulated on the Stop TB Advocacy Network from a TB patient named Pervaiz Tufail. It is a powerful message from the patient’s perspective.
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David Rochkind and the Pulitzer Center Capturing the Human Faces behind TB
On World TB Day March 24, there will be a Congressional Briefing on multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) where David Rochkind, the award winning photographer and Pulitzer Center grantee, will present his reporting and photography on his exploration into the MDR-TB crisis in Moldova.
Women TB Patients Face Bias and Violence
Eight months into her marriage, Rose Joseph (21, name changed) was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in January. Joseph was hospitalised for a week but when she was discharged, her husband asked her to stay at her parents’ place in Malad, saying he and his family had to travel for a wedding. For two weeks, her husband did not call to check on her. When her mother took her to her husband’s home, her mother-in-law said they didn’t want her in the house because she had TB. “My husband wasn’t even ready to face me. My mattress, bedsheets and other belongings had been burned,” said Joseph.
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