Mpumalanga patients with drugresistant TB say health workers at specialist TB hospitals in Standerton and Barberton keep them in the dark about their diagnosis and treatment.
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB is resistant to the most commonly used first-line TB drugs. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) is resistant to these drugs as well as at least half of the mostly commonly used second-line drugs.
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