Real stories of people living with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

WHO/Europe is working closely with nongovernmental and civil society organizations to address Tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (M/XDR-TB). One of the six components of the STOP TB Strategy is to empower communities and people with TB through partnership; this component specifically mentions the involvement of TB patients in TB care and prevention. In order to implement successful TB and drug-resistant TB treatment programmes, it is important to listen to people with TB and TB/HIV co-infection to address the obstacles that they face in accessing treatment and their views on the services and support needed.

Médecins Sans Frontières has engaged with people receiving treatment for MDR-TB from around the world to allow them to tell their stories, their difficulties in accessing and receiving care and their opinions on what they think is needed to help improve TB services.

Currently, patients are blogging from Swaziland, Uganda, and Australia, as well as from two sites in India, and patients from our Region will start blogging soon.

We hope that you will take the time to look at the website found on the right.

Please feel free to comment or ask questions and communicate with other bloggers.