After the birth of their first child, this young mother started losing weight, coughing uncontrollably, and battling constant fatigue-the classic symptoms of tuberculosis. Her husband, a day laborer, tried to find treatment for her, but they were living in a remote rural village where a handful of trained doctors serve the entire province. Health care is provided by healers with no medical education, so the couple sought help from many healers with no training in TB diagnosis and treatment.
