Global News by Tag: Tuberculosis
SELIBE-PHIKWE, BOTSWANA – Segwabe Morathi, a retired religious minister, works as a farmer in a village on the outskirts of Selibe-Phikwe, a small mining town in eastern Botswana. He says farming is not easy in Botswana, where a semiarid desert means that the weather is unpredictable. A changing climate has only made rain more unreliable, he says.
LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – Justina Banda, 44, says that because she is HIV-positive, it makes her extra prone to tuberculosis, TB. She has had TB three times, most recently last year.
Though she has completed her TB treatment, she says she stills feels sick often. She is scared that she might have another relapse. She is going for a TB review in a few days.
KAPSABET, NANDI DISTRICT, KENYA – For 50 days, Kenyan brothers Daniel Negtich, 38, and Patrick Kipng’etich, 28, slept on the floor of a tiny, cold jail cell in Kapsabet Prison in the western region of Kenya.