A Family-Centered Approach to the Treatment and Prevention of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Children and Adolescents: Counseling Tools and Approach

Working with children/adolescents and their families as they undertake their DR-TB prevention and treatment journeys can be incredibly fulfilling. It also, however, requires a significant amount of patience and investment on the part of the counseling and health care teams. This guide from Medecins Sans Frontieres, Khayelitsha provides a “flexible approach” to counseling families affected by drug-resistant tuberculosis.