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09 July 2012 - 08H04
Madagascar battles surge in TB cases
AFP - After enduring six months of pain that grew so intense she could no longer work, Perline Razanadravao finally decided to go with her equally sick baby to see a doctor.
"I had pain everywhere, in my muscles," said the 26-year-old rice grower.
She went first to the local health centre near her home village of Lakatu, which sent her to the nearest clinic to her home, the Little Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, run by Catholic nuns on the outskirts of Moramanga, a town in the east of the country.
That meant a six-hour walk, with nine-month-old Jeudi coughing and suffering from diarrhoea along the way.
There, doctors told her that they are part of Madagascar's growing tuberculosis problem.
Last year alone 26,700 people contracted TB, according to the health ministry, a jump of more than 16 percent compared with 2009, when a military coup precipitated an economic crisis as donors suspended aid to one of the world's poorest countries...
09 July 2012 - 08H04
Madagascar battles surge in TB cases
AFP - After enduring six months of pain that grew so intense she could no longer work, Perline Razanadravao finally decided to go with her equally sick baby to see a doctor.
"I had pain everywhere, in my muscles," said the 26-year-old rice grower.
She went first to the local health centre near her home village of Lakatu, which sent her to the nearest clinic to her home, the Little Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, run by Catholic nuns on the outskirts of Moramanga, a town in the east of the country.
That meant a six-hour walk, with nine-month-old Jeudi coughing and suffering from diarrhoea along the way.
There, doctors told her that they are part of Madagascar's growing tuberculosis problem.
Last year alone 26,700 people contracted TB, according to the health ministry, a jump of more than 16 percent compared with 2009, when a military coup precipitated an economic crisis as donors suspended aid to one of the world's poorest countries...