Personal stories

In countries across the European Region, health workers, aid workers and patients are making a difference in the fight against tuberculosis (TB). These are a few of their stories.

Amal
Amal is a 44-year-old female patient. She is also a mother of 4 children, a housewife and a farmer.

Margit Weismann
Nurse in Greenland with extensive experience dealing with tuberculosis

Latsin Alijev
Programme coordinator of the nongovernmental organization Convictus Estonia

Timo Ulrichs
Microbiologist and immunologist, founder of the Koch-Metchnikov Forum (KMF); a partnership approach to TB control in southern Siberia, Russian Federation

Tel’man Yuldashev
Patient with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), Uzbekistan 

Elena Valerevna Korolyova
Nurse in Belgorod regional branch of the Red Cross, Russian Federation