Treatment of drug-resistant TB in South Africa has been transformed over the past decade.
Most people with the illness no longer have to have daily injections, and treatment is often completed in nine months, compared with 18 to 24 months in the past.
Perhaps most important is that fewer people are dying of drug-resistant TB, and there is less hearing loss, a common side effect of the injections used in the past.
Key to this transformation in our public sector has been the roll-out of the antibiotics, bedaquiline and linezolid.
These two drugs, plus another two, in some cases even four or five, make up drug-resistant TB treatment today.