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TB patient shares story of 'difficult' treatment experience – The Citizen


Makhosandile Zulu
Nelisiwe Ngcobo was part of a study of the BPaL regimen treatment after enduring a very, very difficult treatment course.
A scientist in 2018 in France studies tuberculosis, a multidrug-resistant form of which could require a shorter treatment plan than previously, according to a 2019 study in a US journal. Picture: AFP/File/Anne-Christine Poujoulat
A clinical programme will enrol 400 people in South Africa for treatment with a three-drug, six-month, all-oral regimen of bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid, known as the BPaL regimen, that has been shown to demonstrate a favourable outcome in 90% of patients of highly drug-resistant forms of TB. ....

South Africa , Nelisiwe Ngcobo , Gregory Jagwer , Norbert Ndjeka , Rebecca Krzywda , Francesca Conradie , Tb Alliance Tballiance , Bpal Clinical Access Programme , Department Of Health , Clinical Access Program , Wits Health Consortium , United States Agency For International Development , United States Agency , International Development , Tuberculosis South Africa , துறை ஆஃப் ஆரோக்கியம் , மருத்துவ நுழைவு ப்ரோக்ர்யாம் , விட்ஸ் ஆரோக்கியம் கூட்டமைப்பு , சர்வதேச வளர்ச்சி ,