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Russian Federation: TB treatments yield promising results in the Chechen Republic

Médecins Sans Frontières
Nov. 12, 2017, 12:35 a.m.

The first new drugs to be developed in 50 years were the last chance for some people with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in the Chechen Republic of the Russian Federation. In 2015, MSF’s Maria Borshova spoke to patients who had just started their new two-year-long treatments. She recently met them again.

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