HIV-infected pregnant with TB

This is a DR news story, published by Guardian, that relates primarily to Busisiwe Beko news.

DR news

For more DR news, you can click here:

more DR news

Busisiwe Beko news

For more Busisiwe Beko news, you can click here:

more Busisiwe Beko news

drug discoveries news

For more drug discoveries news, you can click here:

more drug discoveries news

Guardian news

For more news from Guardian, you can click here:

more news from Guardian

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best health news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like drug discoveries news, you might also like this article about

tuberculosis

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest South African organisation TB Proof news, TB drugs news, drug discoveries news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

pregnant women medicines

Guardian

•

‘I wasn’t sure I’d make it’: how a new mother’s brush with TB could mean better treatment for pregnant women

Summary

Nutrition label

83% Informative

Busisiwe Beko was diagnosed with drug-resistant TB ( DR -TB) when she was five months pregnant.

There is still no recommended treatment regimen for DR -TB in pregnant women.

Pregnant women have been excluded from drug trials, which means doctors do not have high-quality clinical trial data to work with.

Clinical trials are never completely free of hazards, but Salazar-Austin believes that highly controlled trials are the right place for the risks to be examined.

Including pregnant women in trials will require extra monitoring for any changes in the mother or baby’s health, she says.

“These risks exist either way. But without good information, it falls squarely on the shoulders of the pregnant women and their doctors.”.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

possibly offensive