Items tagged with Drug-resistant TB
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.
Tradeoffs in introduction policies for the TB drug bedaquiline: a model-based analysis (post)
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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.
Severe adverse events during second-line TB treatment in the context of high HIV co-infection in South Africa: a retrospective cohort study (post)
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MSF reports on use of the new TB drugs bedaquiline and delamanid (post)
Access to the new TB drugs remains severely limited worldwide, but MSF hopes its experience can inform and encourage wider use, while needed clinical research continue.
India: New drugs, new hope (post)
Two new drugs, bedaquiline and delamanid, are proving to be the very last life-line for TB patients with the most extreme forms of drug resistance. While a few patients benefit from these new drugs in India, many die before being able to access them as they are not widely available.
XDR-TB reported in Romania: more cases may be expected (post)
Four cases have been detected in Oradea Municipality, Bihor County, Romania.
MSF offers access to new TB drug in SA (post)
After feeling ill for months, 16-year-old Sinethemba Kuse received the news that she had multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) from her local clinic in Khayelitsha outside of Cape Town in December last year.
Research finds promise in shorter, more effective approaches to treating drug-resistant TB (post)
New research was presented at the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health:
SURVEY: DR-TB patients & providers (post)
Only half of patients who start treatment for drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) finish it successfully. The reasons are many, and often are related to non-medical challenges. USAID is working with patients, their supporters and frontline providers, to develop a patient-centered care package.
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