Dalene von Delft poured a glass of water and steadied herself. She could do this, she told herself, looking at the three yellow pills in her hand that she was preparing to swallow.
Von Delft had to take nearly 30 tablets a day and six months of painful daily injections. Some of the regimens put her at risk of anything from psychosis to permanent deafness. “It was a nightmare. Patients started to gain weight and you’d get happy, so you’d do a lab test — but they would still have the disease. Then they would deteriorate again, until they died,” he explained.
“I kept raising this and a lot of my colleagues in government and researchers at universities locally felt it was true: the drugs were probably problem number one.”
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