Azerbaijani well known writer Chingiz Abdullayev said on national TV on TB stigma and how it affects the families social life: 'I learned later that there are some families that have two, three or more daughters and if one of the daughters has got tuberculosis then their parents try to hide this information so that other daughters in the family could have a chance to marry. Because, if people know about it they will think that there is a disease in this entire family and then nobody will marry the girls from this family. Well, I think from one side it is a secret, but from the other side I also understand the parents’ sorrow and burden."
