Author: Sharon Kantengwa

By Sharon Kantengwa Angelique Batamuriza, who lives with HIV, is more susceptible to tuberculosis, whose germs are spread through the air from one person to another. This makes early diagnosis extremely crucial. The 34-year-old mother of two, who is also a widow, says at one point, she started experiencing a severe cough. “In January this year, I visited Rwamagana District Hospital and was diagnosed with TB within two hours after providing sputum. I started on treatment immediately,” she says. Her children, too, were tested and found to be negative, she reveals. Every two weeks, the resident of Isibagire village, Kigabiro…