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Children getting their own anti-TB drugs soon (post)
Several countries are in a race to make the first large-scale rollout of new tuberculosis drugs designed for young children.
India: Why aren't more TB patients getting the new life-saving drug? Geography is one reason (post)
Sexagenarian Shekhar Verma* lives in Faridabad, Haryana which is part of National Capital Region. A general store owner, he has developed resistance to many crucial antibiotics while being treated for tuberculosis for the last couple of years. The doctor at the National Institute of Tuberculosis & Respiratory Diseases told Verma that the only antibiotic that has high success for patients like him is Bedaquiline. But he cannot get Bedaquiline under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme, government’s tuberculosis control programme.
How the change to the United Arab Emirates law on TB affects expatriates (post)
New regulations issued earlier this year regarding visa rules and deportation orders for tuberculosis (TB) sufferers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) left many residents confused.
MDR-TB treatment costs 235% one's income: Study (post)
MUMBAI: Some forms of tuberculosis are so expensive to treat that an average Mumbai family could spend over half its annual income on a single patient.
MSF general statement at the 56th Series of WIPO Assembly (post)
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) would like to urge WIPO and its member states to tackle the on-going challenges of spiralling drug prices and neglect of public health priorities in the IP-driven medical innovation system.
Pathology politics: Human rights and health in North Korea (post)
In North Korea, the right to health is directly linked to politics. This is well illustrated in the rights of migrants and prisoners, where the connection between TB and multidrug-resistant TB and human rights is an underreported – and underexamined – issue.
A cure has no use if it cannot be widely distributed, managed and accessed (post)
Dr. Fathiya hands us each a blue mask, instructing us to cover our nose and mouth as we pull the bands snugly behind our heads. She insists that we ensure there is a tight seal all along the blue cloth between it and our cheeks, noses, and chins. We are about to enter "The Gazebo" and must take extra precautions to protect ourselves and the patients on the other side from the spread of infections.
How one organisation is helping Indians with extremely drug-resistant TB get the help they need (post)
An article published in the Better India describes what Médecins Sans Frontières does for patients with extremely drug-resistant TB in India. The article is about one of those patients in Mumbai. Click here to read it and watch a short video.
Two women, one drug: a failure of compassion in the global response to drug-resistant TB (post)
Fatima and Asa, two women in their early thirties, might never have met if life had been more kind to them both. Asa was finishing nursing school while living a middle-class life with her husband and three young children in a two-story home in the capital city. Fatima was a mother of five who grew up in deep poverty and was still struggling for survival in a one-room shack on the outskirts of town.
Making child friendly TB medicines available: a game changer for India (post)
Global Fund and USAID financing supports procurement of the new pediatric formulation in India through the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility
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