‘Everyone made me feel like a living zombie’ – Sowetan

Name of article: ‘Everyone made me feel like a living zombie’ – Sowetan

Name of publication: Sowetan

Name of Autor: Boitumelo Tshehle

Date: 15 March 2012

Country: South Africa

Skills: Advertisements

Theme: I stories

Genre: News

GEM Classification: Gender Aware

Description:

A young woman who felt her life was doomed because she had extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) says she sees a good future now that she is cured. Mmaphefo Mohlaoleng, 23, of Khuma location in Klerksdorp, North West, was diagnosed with XDR TB in July 2007. She found out she had been fully cured in January during her visit to Klerksdorp Hospital. She said people had distanced themselves from her. “I lived for four years crying most of my time, it was painful, sometimes I felt like dying.”

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