South Africa: Drug-Resistant TB Patients Lost in the System

Mpumalanga patients with drugresistant TB say health workers at specialist TB hospitals in Standerton and Barberton keep them in the dark about their diagnosis and treatment.

Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB is resistant to the most commonly used first-line TB drugs. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) is resistant to these drugs as well as at least half of the mostly commonly used second-line drugs.

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