Tanzania: Living With a Deadly Expensive Disease Called Hepatitis B

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Dar es Salaam — Living with Hepatitis B--a viral disease that has no cure yet--has been a tough experience for Omary Rashid*, a tuitor at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), but, his ordeal has been compounded by the high cost of treatment for the infection.

Quite often, he has to juggle between meeting tight work deadlines at the campus, with his doctor's appointments at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), where he goes regularly for medical checkups and treatment.

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