South Africa: Phumeza's Chance to Hear Again

19 December 2014

A fundraising campaign has sprung up to pay for cochlear implants that would help former drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) patient and current activist Phumeza Tisile regain her hearing.

Since being cured of the disease in August 2013, the 24-year-old from Khayelitsha has campaigned alongside doctors from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) for better and less harmful drugs to be developed for the treatment of drug resistant TB. In May this year she took her plea to the 67th World Health Assembly in Geneva along with a petition containing 55,000 signatures.

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