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The success of many tuberculosis projects in Vietnam still seems to be fragile. There is long queue of patients in dangerously full hospital wards, raising the risk that drug-resistant strains will spread.

Nhân viên của chương trình Woolcock phổ biến thông tin về bệnh lao cho người dân ở thôn quê. Source: Supplied

Tuberculosis is often a death sentence for Vietnamese people diagnosed with a nasty drug-resistant form of the lung disease.

 

But researchers at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research in Sydney are working to change that with the help of an antibiotic they hope could protect thousands of relatives from catching the deadly disease from their sick loved ones.