Uganda: Bone Tuberculosis Left Me Immobile

26 September 2011

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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