ZAMBIA: The hidden costs of TB (1 hour ago) "When you are poor and you have AIDS, you live with the threat of death above your head. However, when you have tuberculosis (TB), death moves closer and sits on your shoulder,"
said Max Ngoma, who used to be a peasant farmer in Lundazi, a rural town in eastern Zambia.
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