A Simple Regimen Can Prevent TB. Why Aren’t More People on It?

Published on September 25, 2019

GLOBAL HEALTH

A Simple Regimen Can Prevent TB. Why Aren’t More People on It?

Two antibiotics, taken for a month, can stop a leading killer. But “when it’s for TB, people just sort of shrug.”

A tuberculosis patients resting in a room at the Sizwe Tropical Diseases Hospital in Johannesburg last month
Credit: Michele Spatari/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images

 

Two antibiotics, taken for a month, can stop a leading killer. But “when it’s for TB, people just sort of shrug.”

Read Apoorva Mandavilli's article published in the New York Times on September 23rd 2019.

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