Title: Treatment of tuberculosis
Course: Communicable Diseases Part 2 - Ethiopia (Full)

Treatment of tuberculosis

The main objectives of anti-TB treatments include: to cure TB patients (by rapidly eliminating most of the bacteria), to prevent death or organ damage from active TB, to prevent relapse of TB (by eliminating the inactive bacteria), to prevent the development of drug resistance (by using a combination of drugs) and importantly to decrease TB transmission to others.