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South Africa ensures reduction of prices for bedaquiline to benefit the world (post)

The cost of bedaquiline drops to 400 USD/6-month treatment course, effective immediately and will be made available for all TB programs procuring from the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (GDF).

Clinton adds his voice to call for political buy-in and action against TB at AIDS conference (post)

Former President of the United States Bill Clinton delivered a keynote address on the final day of the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) which took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He called for heads of state to attend the UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on TB taking place in September, insisting on continued and increased financial commitment to both TB and HIV/AIDS.

PM Modi asked to take on the US to ensure TB drugs remain affordable (post)

Modi announced India’s plan to eliminate TB by 2025 four months ago, but American intervention has put spanner in the works.

South Africa strikes deal on new TB drug as WHO revisits guidance (post)

AMSTERDAM — The World Health Organization could soon start promoting a new tuberculosis drug that is now more affordable after South Africa brokered a deal with a pharmaceutical company to slash the price by half.

Support South Africa at UN – we need better & affordable TB medicines (post)

Negotiations are currently underway in New York for a United Nations (UN) political declaration on tuberculosis. In order to have a meaningful impact on the TB epidemic, members states must make concrete commitments to address the global TB crisis – a crisis that kills more than 1.5 million people globally every year and that remains South Africa’s leading reported cause of death.

Why India must discard fear, give some TB patients ‘game-changing’ drug (post)

Like South Africa, India should immediately make available the tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline – till now used as a drug of last resort – to nearly 147,000 Indians with a multidrug-resistant version of the disease, a leading South African TB-HIV researcher told IndiaSpend.

New confidential text shows draft deal on UN TB Declaration (post)

A newly agreed draft text of the United Nations political declaration on tuberculosis was released to governments today, affirming the use of flexibilities in international trade rules on intellectual property, but excluding actionable language on those rules.

Documentary: Two Countries, Two Choices: India, South Africa and the struggle against MDR-TB (post)

A new documentary film by AIDS-Free World: The drugs bedaquiline and delamanid can mean the difference between life and death for people suffering from the worst and most noxious strain of TB in the world, multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). The government of India has restricted access to the drugs for its 140,000 MDR-TB sufferers. South Africa has made a different choice for 20,000 MDR-TB patients. The consequences are profound.

Delamanid delay comes home (post)

A note from the field in this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes the case of a dangerously ill man in the United States. Weak, coughing, and losing weight, with pain in his chest, he was tested for tuberculosis, which it turned out he had, and put on the first-line of treatment for the disease.

Johnson & Johnson announces 10-year initiative to help end TB, the world’s #1 infectious killer (post)

J&J’s goal is to save an estimated 1.8 million lives and prevent 12 million new TB infections.

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