Trial design
TB
This study will be conducted as a multi-centre open-label randomized clinical trial with two parallel arms and 1:1 enrolment ratio (82 patients in the intervention arm and 82 controls). We shall enrol a total of 164 participants newly diagnosed with pulmonary MDR-TB or rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) from 3 TB tertiary care centres from 2 regions of the country.