{"id":47340,"date":"2022-08-11T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/11\/patients-are-falling-through-the-cracks-drug-costs-hinder-indias-response-to-tb"},"modified":"2022-08-11T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T05:00:33","slug":"patients-are-falling-through-the-cracks-drug-costs-hinder-indias-response-to-tb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47340","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Patients are falling through the cracks\u2019: drug costs hinder India\u2019s response to TB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The country has the world\u2019s largest number of multi-drug-resistant cases \u2013 but doctors and activists warn patients are going undiagnosed and untreated <\/p>\n<p>Meera Yadav\u2019s flat in Mumbai once felt like a prison, but it\u2019s now a war room. For five years, Yadav barely left her second-storey home after being diagnosed with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). Today the flat is where the 32-year-old coordinates her fight for better treatment and awareness of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat TB patients suffer and the challenges they face has to be documented. As an activist I have to fight,\u201d says Yadav, dressed in a T-shirt bearing the slogan \u201cTB drug bedaquiline for $1 a day \u2013 better DR-TB treatment now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/aug\/11\/patients-are-falling-through-the-cracks-drug-costs-hinder-indias-response-to-tb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country has the world\u2019s largest number of multi-drug-resistant cases \u2013 but doctors and activists warn patients are going undiagnosed and untreated Meera Yadav\u2019s flat in Mumbai once felt like a prison, but it\u2019s now a war room. For five years, Yadav &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2732,59,62,914,61,1597,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-resistance","category-global-development","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tuberculosis","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47341,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47340\/revisions\/47341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}