There’s a big market for new treatments for TB, malaria and other ailments. But most of these diseases afflict low-income people unable to pay for medicine.
A woman with her treatment regime for extensively drug-resistant TB in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
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Treatment for drug-resistant TB remains problematic as the painful daily injectable patients receive for at least six months leaves more than 60% deaf.
A security worker stands outside the Group of TB Hospitals in Mumbai in 2015.
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The health care debate in the US has focused on a looming crisis, with millions possibly losing insurance coverage. In India, an immediate crisis looms with tuberculosis.