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How tackling TB could help win the war on superbugs

The lessons learnt from drug-resistant tuberculosis offer a path to beating back the ‘silent pandemic’ of antimicrobial resistance

Phumeza Tisile is a survivor with a warning for the world.

The South African healthcare activist almost died from tuberculosis in the early 2010s, after a crucial drug to treat it did not work in her case. At one point, her doctors told her to talk to a priest, as they thought she would not live.

Tisile rallied and finally rid herself of the disease in 2013, after more than three-and-half punishing years of treatment. The trauma animated her to campaign to curb the spread of medicine-resistant “superbugs”, such as the one that nearly killed her.

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