TUBERCLOSIS usually attacks the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body like the bones, sometimes leading to disability. Grace Alochi, a single mother, was in good health, hawking smoked fish and selling charcoal to fend for her seven children when a strange disease put her down and left her disabled.
Alochi recalls that the disease started after she had given birth to her second baby.
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