As a young girl, Krystal Birungi vividly remembers her mother staying up all night with her 5-year-old brother, who was convulsing with fever from malaria.
When Meirinda (Mei) Sebayang was diagnosed with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in 2006, she spent five months in near-complete isolation, on the second floor of her family home in Bandung, Indonesia. Treating multidrug-resistant TB is brutal.
Despite living under constant shelling and bombardments over the last seven months, Yulia Malyk has continued working as a social worker in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city. “We are constantly on guard here,” she says. “When I step outside I i...
A large blue and white sign posted on the front of Suzy Haylock’s house says “Solicite aqui el examen de malaria y reciba tratamiento gratis” or “Request your Malaria Test Here and Get Treatment for Free”. Suzy says she has seen thousands of patients...
A few months after fighting in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine subsided, Zhanna Karpenko shudders during a summer thunderstorm. "Is it thunder or shelling?" she asks. Zhanna is the medical director of a hospital in Chernihiv that provides tuberculosi...
Clutching a bag with medical supplies, Nasra Salimu glances at a goat tethered in her compound as if to bid it goodbye. Satisfied with the goat’s food ration for the day, Nasra sets off, walking up a dirt path towards the village center.
One afternoon in May, Neema Waziri walked up a dirt street in Dodoma, Tanzania, her bag brimming with condoms. Neema, 22, a single mother of one, was here to face her past – and her future.
Monica encourages everyone in her community to know their HIV status by getting tested regularly. And if HIV positive, she encourages them to stay on their medications.
At 16 years old it was incredibly daunting for Justin to tell his parents that he was gay. Both his mother and father were supportive, but worried how their son would be treated.
Twelve-year-old Francis had classmates who used to tease him and call him “TB boy.” It is one of the many painful memories he has of his years-long fight against this deadly yet treatable disease. “We did not give up and now Francis is well,” says Fr...
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