Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Medical personnel in Lango are concerned about the increasing cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). MDR-TB is a strain of TB that can only be treated with a combination of four different drugs because they are resistant to the two most powerful first-line medicines. According to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is registering cases of a complicated form of drug-resistant Tuberculosis alias Extra Drug-Resistant TB, according to experts. Extra or Extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR TB) is a type of Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) that does not respond to second-line medication like Isoniazid and Rifampicin or …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts have called for a new survey to determine the current prevalence of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis with information got at hospital level showing low detection of the disease and enrollment into care. Dr Susan Adakun, the head of the TB unit in Mulago National …
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