No free TB drug for SA patients

24 March 2016 - 09:00

By KATHARINE CHILD

South Africa has one of the highest number of drug-resistant TB patients in the world, yet the country does not benefit from a donation programme that provides life-saving medicines for free.This is according to a Doctors without Borders report released today - World Tuberculosis Day.Bedaquiline is the first new TB drug in 50 years and has cured more than 75% of drug- resistant South Africans.

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