Vladislav Vladimirovich Demyanov (63) in Gulripsh Hospital, the centre of MSF’s tuberculosis programme in Abkhazia. He is suffering from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, one of the former Soviet countries’ most frightening health scourges. Treatment for MDR-TB can take more than three years, but a cure cannot be guaranteed.
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