Rwanda: Stepping Up the Fight Against Drug Resistant TB

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THIS WEEK, TB activist Phumeza Tisile departs for the annual World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva to urge world health leaders for better drugs & diagnostics for thousands of drug resistant TB (DR-TB) patients worldwide.

Phumeza, a former extensively drug resistant (XDR-TB) patient who survived a harrowing two-year battle with the disease during which she became permanently deaf, and has since become a committed TB activist.

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