TB: The preventable disease that still kills

Stephen Angura Shikoli, a Tuberculosis (TB) survivor and founder of Pamoja TB Group based at Kangemi Health Centre. The group educates the locals in Kangemi on TB. PHOTO BY NANJINIA WAMUSWA.

Nairobi, Kenya: Stephen Shikoli was diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) in 2009 after a friend advised him to go for TB screening following consistent long cough, chest pains and sweating at night.

"I had sought numerous treatments including use of traditional herbs believing it was witches without success," he recalls.