Alisha Wainwright

Endy survived and now works as a pharmacist and advocate for TB treatment.

We'll hear how things have improved since those days 20 years ago, but some of the underlying issues still remain.

Oof, I already know the story, but hearing it, I can't help but feel emotional on so many levels because TB on its own is a horrible disease.

To be given news that you have essentially incurable version of it because the cost to cure you is inaccessible.

Then having a compassionate person

person from another country who has known you your life, pay for those drugs, fly across the world and give you a second chance at life that takes you almost two years to heal.

And then now he's healthy and he's an advocate.

And I, I think about that

complete 180, 360 story.

And I'm so touched and also alarmed by how many people probably did not have that same experience.

For sure.

So tell me a little bit more about the current regimen for drug resistant tuberculosis.

So to continue the conversation about drug resistance, ND had a specific type of drug resistant TB 20 years ago.

And yes, we've accomplished quite a bit and had a few setbacks along the way since then.

But are there different types of drug resistance for tuberculosis or is there just one kind?

Yes.

If you have extensively drug resistant TB, what's the likelihood of a positive outcome?

So as Salome describes, some progress has been made since Andy was diagnosed with drug-resistant TB all those years ago.

But globally, it still presents a big challenge.

According to the World Health Organization, the majority of people diagnosed with drug-resistant forms of TB are still on treatment regimens that take 18 months or longer to complete.