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Call to action: Accelerate access to DR-TB drugs (post with simple image)
SIGN ON LETTER to global actors and drug companies: Please provide organizational sign-ons by 6 March.
Call to action: Accelerate access to DR-TB drugs (post with simple image)
А letter from 89 organizations urges action to accelerate access to new and repurposed drugs to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Leading medical organizations team up to bring new TB treatments to those in need (post with simple image)
International organizations Partners In Health (PIH), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Interactive Research and Development (IRD) and their financial partner UNITAID will start in April the endTB project, a partnership aimed at radically changing the management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
MSF issue brief: Ready, set, slow down (post with simple image)
New and promising DR-TB drugs are grabbing headlines but not reaching patients.
Treating drug-sensitive TB in India: Implementation of daily therapy with fixed-dose combinations (post with simple image)
A briefing document outlines critical steps needed to implement a new policy from the Indian government to switch to standard daily TB treatment using fixed-dose combinations. This change, which is in line with global recommendations for proper treatment, is welcome but has yet to be put into action.
Access to new medications for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: Patient, provider and community perspectives (post with simple image)
Why are rates of drug-resistant TB so high in Russia? (post with simple image)
Natalya, 31, from Saint Petersburg, is being treated for a new and virulent form of an ancient disease ravaging Russia.
South Africa: 5,000 people and Johnny Clegg call for action on TB -- “We die of TB!” (post with simple image)
On World TB Day, 5,000 members of the Treatment Action Campaign, partner organisations, health professionals and responsible citizens marched to Parliament in Cape Town demanding that MPs get tested for TB, and that Parliament holds government departments to account on TB.
Multi-drug resistance adds to tuberculosis epidemic in Papua New Guinea (post with simple image)
- Rising multi-drug resistance in patients suffering from tuberculosis, a debilitating infectious lung disease which mainly impacts the developing world, has led to a public health emergency in the southwest Pacific Island state of Papua New Guinea, according to state officials.
Uganda to expand successful Kampala scheme in battle against tuberculosis (post with simple image)
It is common for patients to arrive at Dr Kasauli Mahmoud Zinda’s private clinic in Bwaise, just north of Kampala’s humming business district, with a persistent cough, little appetite and a fever that, even after various treatments, just will not break. Zinda knows the symptoms usually add up to tuberculosis. With itinerant residents crowded into poorly ventilated homes and shops, the conditions in the impoverished neighbourhood are ideal for transmitting the disease.
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