Based on a presentation prepared by Gunta Dravniece, Senior consultant, KNCV

Cambodia has one of the highest tuberculosis burdens in the world.

WORLD TB DAY Press Release: A promising new diagnostic test will finally help detect more people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), increasing the urgency to solve major problems around the pricing and supply of DR-TB medicines, according to a new report by MSF.

Living with drug-resistant TB. Photos by Krisanne Johnson.

Photographer and MSF field worker Misha Friedman visited MSF’s TB project in Nukus, western Uzbekistan.

Treating DR-TB is complicated from a programmatic perspective: treatment is individualised, tailored according to which drugs a patient is resistant to. It is long and taxing, requiring people to take a course of antibiotics for up to two years and endure often intolerable side effects.