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Patient adherence for successful tuberculosis treatment

Existing treatment against Tuberculosis is effective but long and many patients abandon it before the end or take their doses at excessively long intervals. In order to improve patients' adherence to treatment, IRD researchers are putting the emphasis on adaptation of control strategies to patients' real geographical, social, health and cultural situation. Trials conducted in Senegal showed the effectiveness of such an approach, which should limit the spread of the disease and the emergence of new resistant strains.

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