Living with Tuberculosis in Rio
Janaína, at right, lies on the bed inside the MDR-TB patients' Unit at Raphael Paula Souza Hospital next to Fraga Center in Curicica, which takes two and half-hours to reach by public transportation from her home in the Babi section of Belford Roxo. A single mother with five sons and the MDR-TB patient who had failed the treatments at least three times, she was unexpectedly hospitalized that day, and the children's council in her neighborhood took her children at home.
