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Patients hail new treatment for drug-resistant TB

Previous treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis required up to 23 pills a day -- the new BPaL course needs five.

PARIS: Volodymyr celebrated a major milestone on Wednesday - his final day of taking a new treatment hailed as a turning point in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis.

The 25-year-old doctor in Ukraine's capital Kyiv said he had nasty neurological side effects when he was on a previous drug regimen, which takes up to two years, involves a huge number of pills and is less than 60-percent effective.

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