Disease Elimination Initiative - Stories
Nelly Cuéllar hit rock bottom in April 2014: her addiction to bazuko (a hallucinatory drug) combined with tuberculosis nearly killed her. Today is a different story. Happy, in peace with life and with her family, this resident of Bogotá, Colombia, shows how perseverance and discipline are necessary to be cured.— March 2016 —
Experiencing the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in Cuba.
"I got sick, but my husband and I wanted to have another child. Thanks to God and the help of my doctors, my baby is really healthy..."
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