TB Drug Regimen

A regimen means a prescribed systematic form of treatment for a course of drug(s). For Drug resistance TB treatment, Multi drug combination of regimen is followed. 

All TB drug regimens have an initial intensive phase(IP) followed by a continuation phase(CP).  Following are some of the main TB drug regimens used based on the drug resistance pattern detected for TB patients.

• First-Line Anti TB Drugs(Prescribed for Drug Sensitive TB DS-TB)
  • Daily weight band wise FDC
• Second-Line Anti TB Drugs (Prescribed for Drug Resistance TB - DR-TB)
  • H mono/poly DR-TB regimen
  • Shorter oral Bedaquiline-containing MDR/RR-TB regimen
  • Longer oral M/XDR-TB regimen