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Putting an end to child TB

Director of Medical Services Jackson Kioko [centre] demonstrating how the newly launched peadiatric TB medicines are prepared. [PHOTO: MAUREEN ODIWUOR/STANDARD]

When Okuku (not his real name) became ill at the beginning of the year, nothing could have prepared the mother for what awaited her.

Jane Ingato (not her real name),  a Tuberculosis (TB) survivor and mother to the five-year-old said she did not think that a common cold could end up being diagnosed as TB.

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