Jean Chung

Living with Tuberculosis in Rio, Brazil. 2009
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Living with Tuberculosis in Rio

Janaina Cristina Lima Francisco, 30, coughs as she prepares to leave the house to get a regular check-up at the Helio Fraga Research Center in Curicica, which takes two and half-hours to reach by public transportation from her home in the Babi section of Belford Roxo. Janaína is an MDR-TB patient who had failed the treatments at least three times. She has five sons who lives with her. Her husband left her after she caught the tuberculosis. She said her children would be better off living in orphanages after she dies.

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Janaina Cristina Lima Francisco, 30, coughs as she prepares to leave the house to get a regular check-up at the Helio Fraga Research Center in Curicica, which takes two and half-hours to reach by public transportation from her home in the Babi section of Belford Roxo. Janaína is an MDR-TB patient who had failed the treatments at least three times. She has five sons who lives with her. Her husband left her after she caught the tuberculosis. She said her children would be better off living in orphanages after she dies.