Phumeza Tisile
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Phumeza Tisile
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Phumeza Tisile is a healthcare activist from South Africa who advocates for making tuberculosis medication inexpensive and widely available. Tisile survived extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), enduring three years and 8 months of treatment. Tisile's initial misdiagnoses led to months of incorrect treatment, which caused her to become deaf. As an activist, Tisile advocates for improved access to tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment, improved counseling for patients, research in
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South African tuberculosis activist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phumeza_Tisile
date created:
2024-01-09T04:35:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T17:24:19Z
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