Table 1.

MDR-TB patients who started MDR-TB treatment and patients who initiated BDQ treatment, per country, 2015

Country	Estimated number of laboratory-confirmed MDR-TB patients in country in 2015*	Laboratory-confirmed MDR-TB patients in country in 2015* n	MDR-TB patients initiated on treatment in 2015 n	MDR-TB patients started on BDQ in 2015 n	Estimated proportion of treated patients started on BDQ %
Belarus	1710	1282	1949	138	7.1
France	56	111	98	45	45.9
Georgia	640	441	466	128	27.5
South Africa	6200	18 734	12 516	1085	8.6
Swaziland	460	358	483	30	6.2

^*Estimates are based on WHO modeling and include very wide confidence intervals; there may thus be more individuals diagnosed with MDR-TB than the estimates. Of note, there may in some countries be more persons started on MDR-TB treatment than those with confirmed MDR-TB from that year because persons with extra-pulmonary disease, children, close contacts, and others may be started on treatment empirically even in the absence of culture confirmation.

MDR-TB = multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; BDQ = bedaquiline; WHO = World Health Organization.