Locked away for months


People waiting for consultations at the health centre in Maroua, Cameroon. — Arlette Bashizi/The New York Times

ALL day long, Asta Djouma sits on a hard wood bench or on a harder concrete floor and looks out from the doorway of the small hospital room in Northern Came­roon that is her universe.

She has been here since October, when she learned that she had a type of tuberculosis that does not respond to the most commonly used drugs.

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