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Swaziland has the highest rate of new cases of tuberculosis in the world. Multidrug-resistant forms of the disease are on the increase.
For many DR-TB patients like Winile, treatment is a long and gruelling two-year journey involving between 15 to 25 toxic tablets every day and daily injections for the first six months. In some cases, treatment can take longer if patients do not respond to the drugs. Side effects include deafness, liver or kidney toxicity and one of the most extreme: psychosis. This often forces patients to give up their jobs while on treatment and in countries like Swaziland, this makes the possibility of succumbing not to the disease, but poverty, high.
In a bid to help patients who’ve gone deaf or partially deaf, in Matsapha, where MSF operates a comprehensive healthcare clinic, eleven DR-TB patients and 30 MSF staff recently completed sign language training.
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