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It all started six months ago when Karima (not her real name) started coughing but mistook it for a simple case of flu. Even though Karima has a form of Tuberculosis (TB) which has been resistant to different drugs – known as Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), she said this cough was different.
MDR-TB is a particular type of drug resistant TB where the TB bacteria that a person is infected with is resistant to two of the most important TB drugs, Isoniazid (INH) and Rifampicin (RMP). If bacteria are resistant to certain TB drugs, the drugs do not work.
“My elder sister took me to a clinic and l was given antibiotics and syrup for the cough but after two weeks there was no improvement,” Karima said. ....

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