Experts say herbalists complicating TB treatment efforts

Dr Mary Nabukenya, the director of the USAID TB Flagship project in the Ministry of Health, told journalists in Kampala that herbalists buy regular Western TB drugs from pharmacies and use them to make concoctions that they sell to unsuspecting victims.

Multi-drug-resistant TB is caused by a strain of TB bacteria that is resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampicin, which are the two commonly used anti-TB drugs.