In 1995, the World Health Organization declared the tuberculosis epidemic in Ukraine. Over the past 16 years the situation has greatly worsened. Each day TB takes lives of 30 people, annually - about 10 thousand. In December 2010, I went to Donbass region in Ukraine. I was greatly influenced by what I saw on the first day. After a while I realized that this happens all over the country and that the epidemic of tuberculosis has become one of the national problems.