Tag Archives: Tuberculosis

At just 25, Sandra (not her real name) still remembers the shock of being told she had tuberculosis (TB). Like many people, she initially believed TB was almost a death sentence. “It was hard initially. In this country, when you’re diagnosed with tuberculosis, it’s like a death sentence, more like having HIV. It’s really disturbing,” she said. Her symptoms had …

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around the world—from Kenya to Canada, South Africa to Sweden—relish the prospect of an unofficial transition of COVID-19 from pandemic to endemic and start to ease pandemic-related restrictions, many of us in the tuberculosis (TB) community find it hard to relate. In TB, we know what can happ

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