Bebe Cool visits TB patient one.

As the TUBERCULOSIS ambassador for UGANDA under Amber Heart Foundation, i had to seek for better understanding of this disease so that i can come up with good ideas to fight it and the first thing i did was to go talk to patients, one couple and a young man.

TUBERCULOSIS is an air born disease that kills about 80,000 Ugandans every year and it's one of the diseases that will keep Ugandans below the poverty line. I have identified the biggest problem and it is lack of awareness among all classes of people about the disease, how it is contracted, its symptoms and how to behave around those that have it. Most Ugandans associate TB with HIV which i find totally wrong because that relationship brought about STIGMA leading most people to believe that you only get TB if you are HIV positive. It is even more hurting to know that Ugandans don't know that TB treatment is free in UGANDA in all government and private facilities.

With some funding from TB Reach under the Stop TB partnership and with the help of the ministry of health, KCCA, Defeat TB and other partners, i have embarked on a war of both awareness and finding missing TB patients with the goal of eradicating it out of UGANDA by 2030 inshaAllah. I welcome you to join me in this fight. For any information related to TB, reach us on 0788377700 or 0754539500