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CHANGED MAGAZINE 1 For the past 17 years, PBSP has served as one of the key players in TB control management in the Philippines, having cemented its solid experience and expertise in managing projects as subcontractor and later as principal recipient through funding from major donors like the United States Agency for International Development, United Way Worldwide and The Global Fund. Under PBSP’s portfolio, more than 37,000 multidrug-resistant patients underwent treatment, more than 43,000 healthcare providers were trained, hundreds of treatments centers across the country were built, over 200 companies established Workplace TB policies and programs, and thousands of patients were cured. These successes were attained through the effective management of the following projects: Philippine Tuberculosis Initiatives for the Private Sector (PhilTIPS), Linking Initiatives and Networking to Control TB (TB LINC), Innovations and Multisectoral Partnerships to Achieve Control of Tuberculosis (IMPACT), Sustaining TB Control and Ensuring Access to Comprehensive Quality TB Care Project, Intensifying and Mainstreaming Integrated DOTS in the Philippines Project, and Advancing Client-Centered Care and Expanding Sustainable Services for TB (ACCESS TB), with a combined grant of over Php15 billion. Among its most notable achievements is its A1 rating garnered during Phase 2 of the Sustaining TB Control project, the highest rating given by The Global Fund to its principal recipients for achieving 100 percent of its Top 10 indicators. The achievements of these PBSP-managed projects contributed to the national efforts which enabled the Philippines to reduce TB prevalence and mortality rates by half and meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 6 on TB ahead of time. To this day, PBSP, through its ACCESS TB project, continuously strives to find the missing TB cases in the public and private sectors, as part of its goal to contribute to the National TB Control Program’s mission to end TB. 2 SIXTEENTH ISSUE CHANGED MAGAZINE 3 ABOUT THE COVER 50 What’s INSIDE 24 TRIUMPHS OVER TB The cover shows the different stakeholders working together to fight TB — patients, doctors, healthcare providers and volunteers. Through this compilation of 08 | Ride to Freedom their stories from previous issues, we hope to highlight A former inmate and TB patient who their strength and resilience amid the challenges of TB lost everything rebuilds his life and treatment as well as the drive and commitment to cure strives to help others more TB patients in spite of the obstacles. 10 | Saved by Diligence and Faith The magazine “CHANGED” features stories of inspiring From being an alcoholic to TB patient, this inmate finds people in social development whose lives were changed redemption in treatment and in his deeper relationship either through their involvement in projects undertaken with God by PBSP with its member-companies, partners, and donors, or through interventions in the communities we 12 | Waiting to be Free serve. The A in “CHANGED,” is represented by the delta From being an alcoholic to TB patient, this sign ( ) which is also a mathematical symbol for change. inmate finds redemption in treatment and in his deeper relationship with God JEROME DACLISON 14 | Rebirth of a Social Butterlfy EDITOR - IN - CHIEF An active housewife from an island in San Carlos City overcomes MDR-TB in spite of the odds RACHEL BARAWID MANAGING EDITOR 16 | Stronger Together JEROME DACLISON A family of five overcomes MDR-TB and gets a RACHEL BARAWID better life with help from PBSP’s TB program REGGIE MARIE BARRIENTOS RAPHAEL PUNZALAN JEDIDAIAH HERRERA 18 | Surviving the JAYSON MANGALUS VEEJAY CALUTAN Second Time Around WRITERS | PHOTOGRAPHERS The man resolves to be a better person after his two-time ordeal from TB MARILYN MIRANDO GRAPHIC ARTIST 20 | Nothing can Bring him Down JUVY DOMINGO For this former patient, MDR-TB didn’t cripple him PRODUCTION COORDINATOR but made him even stronger PBSP ACCESS TB TEAM 22 | Patients Interrupted: DIRK ALFARO Fighting on two fronts CONTRIBUTORS Two patients who were lost to treatment during the Marawi siege managed to get back before it was too late 24 | Victory over TB A student in Cebu City overcomes TB and serves as an inspiration for fellow patients 4 SIXTEENTH ISSUE 38 46 42 40 16 UNITED TO END TB 30 | A Mother to 20 Inmates A nurse in a Zamboanga prison goes beyond her duty to bring proper care to inmate-patients 40 | When the Tears Dry Up 32 | The Job of A person living with HIV who lost 14 the ability to cry shares his story of Saving Lives rejection and how he bounced back A banker gives up her lavish lifestyle to fulfil her passion to serve as a PMDT nurse 42 | Fighting Battles, Winning Wars 34 | Giving Hope, A TB patient overcomes his Changing Lives struggles as he helps others cope A PBSP nurse in Zamboanga with the disease finds her purpose in tr eating TB patients 44 | Courage 18 under Fire 36 | Providing A nurse recounts his experience when he was caught in the Treatment with a Heart crossfire on Day 1 of the Marawi 54 | PMDT Service A nurse from San Carlos City siege commits to a life of service by Directory treating patients with MDR-TB and 36 helping them reintegrate in society 46 | Breathing Free 67 | HIV A TB survivor from Facilities Valenzuela begins 38 | When Strangers rebuilding life through Directory Become Family advocacy A support group helps TB patients 72 | About cope with the disease and treatment 50 | TB Champion ACCESS TB A survivor of Tuberculosis from Bulacan serves as the 73 | About voice for fellow patients PBSP 32 CHANGED MAGAZINE 5 6 SIXTEENTH ISSUE TRIUMPHS OVER TB Tuberculosis is one of the fatal diseases that thousands of Filipinos face in the country. For patients with Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB), the fight against the disease is even more difficult. Patients have to undergo months of non-stop treatment and check-ups to cure the disease. PBSP, through the Advancing Client-centered Care and Expanding Sustainable Services for TB or ACCESS TB Project, aims to help and cure patients with this disease. In this section, we will share with you stories of courage and strength of our resilient patients who won the fight against TB with the help of our dedicated advocates, support groups, and service providers. CHANGED MAGAZINE 7 trength is not measured by how much your muscles have grown from hitting the gym or running the treadmill but by the value of your S determination to rebuild your life and help others after a “heavy lifting.” After all, life demands mental toughness to go on. Jinan Janaide is strong. This former inmate and TB patient- turned-advocate proved it to himself and he has proof. His wife and kid are his sources of strength. Together, they make a living for their family by managing their ukay-ukay business in downtown Zamboanga City. He was happy when he learned that his wife was carrying their second child. But this would mean he had to work double time. When he was given an opportunity to be a pedicab driver, he did not think twice. Surely, he could not say no to an offer that would give him an easy PhP5,000-PhP10,000 a day. Who would? For him who was earning a little just to survive a day, the job was a big catch. But only because it was more than just transporting passengers, it involved him being an accomplice for a drug business. He knew about it when it was offered to him, and he accepted it wholeheartedly. Little did he know that this would not last for a lifetime and that he would be caught in a drug-raid on Nov. 1, 2002. From that day on, Janaide not only lost his freedom and strength but also his wife whom he asked to look for another man. Realizing that he could no longer care for his family while in prison, he also told his wife to sell their business for no one would maintain its operation. LIFE BEHIND BARS Janaide slowly accepted his fate and went on with his life. He was strong, indeed, even when he learned that his kids were abandoned by his wife and left with her mother. “I was selling cigarettes in prison, and even took on various jobs. I wanted to make sure that every time my kids would visit me, I can give them money for their studies,” said Janaide THANKS TO the Access TB project, Jinan Janaide was cured from MDR-TB and is now working as a Sputum Transport Rider (STRider) for PBSP. 8 SIXTEENTH ISSUE Sixteenth Issue MARCH 2019 WORLD TB DAY 2019: IT’S TIME TO END TB! RIDE TO FREEDOMA former inmate and TB patient who lost everything rebuilds his life and strives to help others who also offered laundry and massage the health center, Janaide learned that TAKING HIS ADVOCACY services to his fellow inmates. there was a PMDT Satellite Treatment TO THE NEXT LEVEL Center at the Mindanao Central He would even go as far as taking care of Sanitarium General Hospital which Janaide was hired by PBSP to work as part sick inmates. offered free medicines. PMDT stands for of the STRider project which stands for Programmatic Management of Drug- Sputum Transport Rider. “It also became my habit to care for my resistant TB, a component under the fellow inmates whenever they are sick,” he Advancing Client-Centered Care and STRiders are partners under the ACCESS added. Expanding Sustainable Services (ACCESS TB project managed by PBSP who play TB) project managed by PBSP that caters a crucial role in ensuring that sputum FROM PRISONER TO PATIENT- to drug-resistant TB patients like him.