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Can drug-resistant TB get cured?

March 21, 2016

Only half of people with multidrug resistant TB are cured, and patients run a high risk of losing their hearing due to the drugs.

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Mia Malan is Bhekisisa's editor-in-chief and executive director. Under her leadership, Bhekisisa’s online readership increased 30 fold and its donor funding eightfold between 2013 and 2019. Malan has won more than 20 African journalism awards for her work and is a former fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.

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