By Athira Elssa Johnson -
Drug- resistant Tuberculosis opens doors to issues like poverty, homlessness, caste class divisions, unemployment, education, stigma, discrimination and a lot more, recent reports show covid19 is all of this too, a lockdown like this is unaffordable and dangerous for the already struggling. Hope this gets over real soon.

Thankyou Ramavarman T,  TNN, to note about how TB patients strive the traumitising medication and isolation amidst all this.
" I believe in the power of lived experiences and documenting stories . I try to survive amidst the stigma, hate and act against any means / system of oppression. Considers intersectionality as to be the most important in politics and elsewhere. Trying to learn, relearn and unlearn as a journalist. My beat is health and I pursue it with understanding of communities "

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