Phumeza Tisile information

Phumeza Tisile
Phumeza Tisile
Nationality	South African
Occupation	Advocacy Officer

Phumeza Tisile is a healthcare activist from South Africa who advocates for making tuberculosis medication inexpensive and widely available.^[1] Tisile survived extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), enduring three years and 8 months of treatment.^[2]^[3] Tisile's initial misdiagnoses led to months of incorrect treatment, which caused her to become deaf.^[4]^[3] As an activist, Tisile advocates for improved access to tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis and treatment, improved counseling for patients, research into better treatments, and elimination of TB stigma.^[3]

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