Médecins Sans Frontières - TB Practecal Animation

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB153109

Date taken / Date Recorded 23/03/2023 4:28 PM

Country Belarus, South Africa, Uzbekistan

Commissioning section MSF-UNITED KINGDOM

Copyright MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) External Media, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★★★★ (B)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m57s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1920px 242.03 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist 00:00 - 00:06
Tuberculosis is a disease that claims the lives of over 2 million people a year.

00:07 - 00:17
As things stand, low to middle income countries account for around 80% of all TB cases and it's a public health crisis deeply rooted in inequality.

00:18 - 00:29
Central to this is multi-drug resistant tuberculosis or MDR-TB - a strain of the disease, which doesn't respond to an initial course of antibiotic treatments.

00:30 - 00:36
For a person with MDR-TB, existing treatment plans could run for up to two years and take a real toll.

00:37 - 00:50
PULL QUOTE - Dr Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa
"What is quite clear with MDR, TB, is that sometimes the treatment itself is is worse than the disease."
"The outcomes where we're not acceptable."

00:51 - 00:53
So what did we do about it?

00:53 - 01:01
We set out to establish a treatment plan which was shorter, safer, more effective, and with fewer grueling side effects.

01:01 - 01:04
The six month drug regimen that won out was BPaLM.

01:04 - 01:08
It resulted in a huge reduction in symptoms and side effects.

01:08 - 01:16
Not only is the treatment shorter, but on balance much more bearable - going from up to 20 pills per day to around seven.

01:16 - 01:20
What we saw was a marked improvement in terms of quality of life.

01:20 - 01:28
The bottom line though, is that with this new approach, MDR, TB survival rates went from 50% to 89%.

01:28 - 01:35
But the job isn't done. Our trial has shown that shorter, safer and more effective treatment is possible.

01:35 - 01:45
It's shown that when we work together with affected communities, trust local expertise and put people at the centre of our thinking, change can happen.

01:45 - 01:48
For people with MDR-TB, it's given hope.

01:48 - 01:53
The next step is getting this treatment to the people who need it most.

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