Hi Van Mlaki,
TB is spread thru the following ways:
• TB is spread through the air from one person to another. The TB germs are passed through the air when someone who is sick with TB disease coughs, laughs, sings, or sneezes WITHOUT covering his/her mouth.
• If you breathe air that has TB germs, you may get TB infection. This means you have only dormant (sleeping) TB germs in your body. These dormant germs are not making you sick, and you cannot pass these germs to anyone else. REMEMBER at some point in our life we have inhaled TB germs and they are in our lungs but not causing disease (dormant TB germs).
• If these dormant TB germs in your body wake up and multiply, you will get sick with TB disease, there are several reasons for these dormant TB germs to wake up and cause a disease.
• TB is a curable disease, the drugs are very effective but if TB is not treated it can cause death if not treated with medicine (anti-TB).
You cannot get TB germs from:
• Sharing drinking containers or eating utensils.
• Saliva shared from kissing.
TB is NOT spread through shaking someone's hand, sharing food, touching bed linens or toilet seats, or sharing toothbrushes.
As soon as the patient start TB treatment then he/she become non infectious and therefore the risk of transmitting to other people is very minimal. For your case, i believe your partner has already started treatment, she is non infectious and please help her to finish continue and finish treatment effectively!
Having sex (making love) is not a contraindication to a TB patient, the important thing is whether she is not very ill!