Infographic: Drug-resistant TB: How many pills does it take?
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1500? That's nowhere near enough. Scroll a bit more
3,000. Sadly, we are not even half-way there. Please keep scrolling
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A person being treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis typically swallows up to 14,600 pills & endures 240 painful injections. After all that, the chance of being cured is only 50%. Join our patients and doctors in asking for shorter, more tolerable treatments to be developed.