Senior Medical Officer at Helen Joseph Hospital Shorter Simpler Treatment for XDRTB One day of XDR treatment today Treatment duration 2 years One week of BPaL regimen in NixTB trial ID: 809436
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Dr. Nompumelelo
Mthupa
, Senior Medical Officer at Helen Joseph Hospital
Slide2Shorter, Simpler Treatment for XDR-TB
One day
of XDR treatment today
Treatment duration: 2+ years
One week
of BPaL regimen in Nix-TB trialTreatment duration: 6 months
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XDR-TB patient undergoing treatment at Sizwe Tropical Diseases Hospital
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Patients at Helen Joseph Hospital wait for treatment
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Traditional healer Gladys also serves on the TB community advisory board in Alexandra Township
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Boitumelo with her partner Ronnie, who also suffers from MDR-TB
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MDR-TB patient Boitumelo "Tumi"
Letseku
and her mother Hilda
Slide8Increase funding for USAID TB work
especially for product development and introduction of new regimensEnsure that all funding to fight anti-microbial resistance, especially BARDA and CARB-X, focus on the full list of CDC threats, especially drug resistant TB
NIH strategic plan feedback - BY MONDAY!
Google “NIAID TB Strategic Plan Feedback”
NIH should invest more in clinical research for novel drugs, regimens, vaccines and diagnostics
NIH strategic plan feedback
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MDR-TB survivor
Bongumusa
Shabalala at Helen Joseph Hospital