“The kind of discrimination I faced from my neighbours made me regret sharing my condition with them; I could not even share the communal sink,” a Kenyan woman with TB told a UN investigator in November 2009 [1]. Unfortunately, these words are illustrative of a long history of stigmatization in human communities when contagious diseases strike [2-5].
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