#xdr tb

[deweydecimalchickens]

Good news! We have a way to make extensively-drug-resistant TB respond to antibiotics.

Bad news: it involves taking one of the oldest-school, worst antipsychotics. The one that was withdrawn for cardiac side-effects. Because fuck you, that's why.

This review presents the evidence that supports the use of thioridazine (TZ) for the therapy of a pulmonary tuberculosis infection regardles

[pocketglobalhealth]

Supercharged Tuberculosis, Made in India

A patient with extensively drug-resistant TB flew from Mumbai to Chicago, and the deadly disease could become an infamous export due to problems in India's public health system

[doctorswithoutborders]

Supposed to be on my 4 th year at University right now, most of my friends are going to be graduates this year and I’m not even close to that. Guess everything happens for a reason, but for this I don’t see any reason why it have to be so damn hard. But again I guess it’s those lessons that ‘life is not easy’ but really does it have to be this hard?? Mmhhh. Maybe it will be a happy new year, the day they say I’m actually cured from XDR (be it in June/July) for me that would be a HAPPY NEW YEAR.

22-year-old Phumeza is in her forth year of treatment for tuberculosis and is finding it tough. Please leave your questions, comments and messages of support for Phumeza in the comments box below her blog post. 

[doctorswithoutborders]

People don’t want to come near you or even chat to you when you are wearing that respirator mask.

Phumeza Tisile Read more from Phumeza, a 20-year-old from Khayelitsha outside Cape Town, South Africa diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB)