Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Treating the untreatable

With 84,000 cases of drug-resistant #tuberculosis cases, India has the highest burden of DR-TB in the world. In Mumbai, MSF has been providing not just medical treatment but holistic care to people living with DR-TB. Watch this video to find out more

MSF's Independent clinic in Mumbai provides ambulatory medical and psychosocial care for patients with very complex TB resistance patterns (resistant to many or nearly all available TB drugs), who require treatment regimens which are not available in the public sector. Most patients seen by MSF have often previously been treated with ineffective regimens for several years by public and private practitioners. Some are also believed to have been directly infected in the community by extensively resistant strains.