Counselling: Putting TB patients at the centre of care

Tuberculosis is much more than a disease as the treatment makes it difficult for a patient to lead a normal life. Counsellors at MSF clinic in Mumbai focus on not just patients' treatment but every aspect of their lives. Our team educate patients and their families about tuberculosis, infection control, precautions and side-effects of medicines along with the medical treatment. But why is it such an important aspect of TB treatment? Watch this video to find out.

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.