By Athira Elssa Johnson -


This post is on @doctorswithoutborders MSF website and also there are other blogs and TB stories that you can go through. Hope TB talks keep happening and we end the stigma. Sending solidarity and love to people living in pain. Hope we share our stories, overwhelm the system to listen to us. Tuberculosis and drug resistant tuberculosis is not something that you should post about only on World TB day, coz its just not on TB day alone we are associated with tuberculosis.


Link to the blog : https://blogs.msf.org/bloggers/athira-elssa-johnson/tb-me-surviving-tb-mdr-tb-and-negligent-system




" 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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