Bilal, 22, has just been discharged from hospital after a bout of drug-resistant typhoid. Doctors told us that typhoid was once an illness that you could cure with pills but is now leading to hospital admissions. Bilal’s typhoid could be treated only with an antibiotic called meropenem, which is reserved for the most serious infections. It is also expensive – and it sold at a price families like his struggle to afford.
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