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Donetsk TB hospital, December 2010. He worked at the mine. In 2007 pulmonary tuberculosis was discovered. Doctors prescribed the treatment, after it he felt better. He didn’t finish the treatment and started to drink alcohol. In 2010 the acute abdominal pain appeared. The numerous ulcers have formed in the bowel, intestinal TB was diagnosed. Doctors demanded to transport the patient to a TB hospital or home immediately. He was transported by a taxi, as an ambulance didn’t want to help. After another operation all the sutures on his stomach diverged because of multiple ulcers. The doctors told that he could probably live just a couple of days. The family decided to take the dying man home. He was walking around the apartment and brawling during the whole month with an open wound on his stomach. The wife had to beg doctors to take him to the hospital. He died in December 23, 2010. This photo has been made two hours before his death.

Zhdanovka penal colony #3, February 2011 Is under detention in a TB hospital. Doctors oversee him during fluorography in an X-ray room.

Yenakiieve TB hospital, December 2010. They’ve got acquainted in the dispensary during the treatment. Call each other domestic husband and wife. He has been recently liberated, got ill in “the zone”. While he was in prison, his mother died, the house was robbed and everything was stolen, including all documents. Since he has no housing habitation, he cannot get an official residential registration, and they cannot register their marriage. A couple sleep in different wards, sees each other only in the daytime. They hope one day to register their marriage and to have a family.

Tsurupinsk children’s TB hospital, September 2011.

Starozburevska penal colony #7, July 2011.