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The Intersection of TB and HIV

tuberculosis actually kills more people every year than AIDS HIV is a disease of your immune system it actually doesn't kill you directly the primary disease that actually kills people with HIV is tuberculosis to really help people with HIV we either need to prevent them from getting tuberculosis or treat the TB that they have my name is cymbal heated pleasure I live in Cape Town in tiny chip when they told me my results that I was HIV positive I was 18 years old I was like huh now what I'm gonna do what I'm gonna tell my mother in my father whatever my time to myself at first my boyfriend had TB so I was always there like with him supporting him with his TP and all that stuff and then when I was at WIC I was always like try it coughing I didn't want to eat but I knew the symptoms of TB so I thought maybe I could have a TB extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis or xdr-tb is resistant to both the two most common antibiotics and also the next set of effective and anti-tb drugs at the time when I found out that I had xdr-tb I was so angry at him I even called the music I don't want any relationship with you because I'm very angry at you now I have ecstatic TP that I've kids what I'm gonna do now my boyfriend was in hospital four or five days and then he died the only current treatment for xdr-tb has extreme side effects including vomiting blindness hallucinations and exhaustion I couldn't wake I think for more than six months in the morning a local to the clinic 22 tablets every day Monday to Sunday 22 tablets it's very hard but I'm doing it even if I will feel like don't want to treat my tablets today but I will take them because I'm like there are people that are counting on me like your family your kids your friends they want you they I never thought I would have TP I hoped it'd be I didn't ask for it I didn't say tbh come to me Timmy came you