{"id":216093,"date":"2025-12-08T21:54:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-ministry-initiates-measures-to-address-tb-treatment-failure\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:54:01","slug":"botswana-ministry-initiates-measures-to-address-tb-treatment-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-ministry-initiates-measures-to-address-tb-treatment-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Ministry Initiates Measures to Address TB Treatment Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Gaborone \u2014 The Ministry of Health has initiated measures to address the unusual rise of Tuberculosis (TB) treatment failure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In a press release, the ministry notes that the specific batch of the TB drugs with the poor outcomes were quarantined and taken for testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The results shows that the concerned Fixed Dose Combination (FDC) drugs are deficient of two critical anti-TB molecules: Rifampicin and Ethambutol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Although it is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512080299.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 The Ministry of Health has initiated measures to address the unusual rise of Tuberculosis (TB) treatment failure. In a press release, the ministry notes that the specific batch of the TB drugs with the poor outcomes were quarantined and taken for testing. The results shows that the concerned Fixed Dose Combination (FDC) drugs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[7325,258,256,4718,2462,5631,6848,7305,6857,257,254,12416],"class_list":["post-216093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-failure","tag-initiates","tag-measures","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treatment"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}