It was like a nightmare, you can’t imagine how difficult it was to take those drugs. You want to sleep but you can’t, you feel dizzy, you feel nauseous…you vomit, but you don’t feel any better. I took the drugs even though I felt awful but my former cell-mate couldn’t keep going. For him the side-effects were too much.
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Ruslan, an MSF patient in Kyrgyzstan, on being treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
Treatment for MDR-TB is costly and complex. The duration of treatment is long (up to two years) with severe side effects and a cure cannot be guaranteed. Read the full story and find out how MSF is treating MDR-TB.
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tuberculosis patient called Ruslan.
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