“one woman’s journey from fear, anger & rebellion to health and wellness gives XDR-TB sufferers a face, a voice & ultimately hope”
Facing XDR-TB
Kim Johnson
25 May 2012
City Press restores the humanity of XDR-TB sufferers through an account of the personal experience of Dimakatso Montshiwagae, the first person to be successfully cured of this virulent disease.
XDR-TB (extensively drug resistant TB) has repeatedly whipped South Africa up into frenzied alarm since the shocking and deadly outbreak of XDR-TB in Tugela Ferry in 2006.
In the process of coming to grips with XDR-TB it has become a Frankenstein’s monster. The ordinary flesh and blood faces of those with the disease have been erased from the public consciousness by blind panic and fear.
But one woman’s journey from fear, anger and rebellion back to health and wellness has given XDR-TB sufferers a face, a voice and ultimately hope.
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