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At Individual Level

  • Lack of self-esteem and confidence
  • Increased sense of emotional isolation, feeling of guilt and anxiety
  • Physical as well as financial debilitation
  • People, more often women, are forced to leave their homes
  • Concealing symptoms and hesitancy in seeking medical care making disease management more difficult
  • Delayed diagnosis, interrupted treatment that can lead to further transmission and DRTB
  • Vulnerability increases, can lead to suicidal thoughts due to isolation and shame

 

At Family and Community Levels

  • Loss of household earnings
  • Exposure of caregivers to the risk of infection that lowers productivity and cycle of poverty further gets perpetuated
  • Isolation and stigmatization of infected persons often by people of their community
  • Deep-rooted lack of knowledge and misconceptions among the affected and infected within their cultural and religious environment
  • Loss of status and negative impact on those with the disease, their caregivers, family, friends and communities
  • Perceived and internalized stigma of the community due to socio-cultural values that TB is punishment for sins or transgression

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