NAME: Krishna AGE: 17 years PROFESSION: Student FAMILY HISTORY OF TUBERCULOSIS: His brother suffered from tuberculosis TYPE OF TUBERCULOSIS: Positive (contagious) TUBERCULOSIS STAGE: CAT I, Intensive phase When I first meet Krishna, a 17 year old boy who suffers…
"TB is the child of poverty – and also its parent and provider.” – Archbishop Desmond Tutu This is certainly the case with Nababa, a 40 years old TB patient living in a very interior rural village of Madhya Pradesh.…
The center Saraswati Kumari attends is located in Meethapur I. The entrance is at a dusty intersection, between stalls selling fruit and car parts. Inside the center, the walls are painted blue, and I can see the shelf stocked with…
Nisha lives at the end of a row in the slums of Meethapur. Just beyond her house lie dusty fields interspersed with green pools of stagnant water, filled with rubbish. Dogs lie in the shade, trying to keep cool. We…