Items tagged with Drug-resistant TB
Return of the 'White Plague': Fears over the rise of 'incurable' TB (post with simple image)
"The disease has reached a public health emergency in South Africa. We treat 8,000 cases of resistance a year and now a chunk of those have developed resistance beyond XDR-TB - incurable TB."
RESIST-TB: DR-TB Clinical Trial Progress Report (post with simple image)
Curious what is going on in clinical trials for DR-TB? Visit RESIST-TB Progress Report: DR-TB Clinical Trials table to check out what trials are in development, enrolling and completed here.
Opinion: Facing the ‘White Plague’ in a white coat (post with simple image)
As a medical student, Dr Dalene von Delft contracted multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). The experience has propelled her into advocacy, she writes why.
South Africa: DR-TB a ‘public health emergency’ - activists (post with simple image)
Civil society groups have called for government to declare drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) a public health emergency, as the DR-TB response remains underfunded.
End DR-TB patients’ deadly waiting game now, MSF tells SA health authorities (post with simple image)
South Africa could realise savings of up to 42% through fully decentralised models of care, but fragmented, slow government response sees policy stutter after 3 years; MSF negotiates to expand access to effective drugs for more patients at lower price.
South Africa: Litigation threat may prompt access to cheaper DR-TB drug (post with simple image)
South Africa may finally allow access to a cheaper form of the drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) drug linezolid following the lodging of a high court case.
South Africa: Minister does not join call for DR-TB emergency (post with simple image)
Despite activists’ pleas, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has not joined almost 800 health workers and experts in supporting the call to declare drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) a public health emergency.
TB: A dire struggle to keep up on path of increased resistance (post with simple image)
There was recently a small celebration in one of the primary healthcare clinics in Khayelitsha near Cape Town. One more person was officially declared cured after more than two years of treatment for pre-XDR-TB.
South Africa: More MSF patients with DR-TB gain access to dramatically cheaper version of life-saving drug (post with simple image)
Patients & MSF doctors elated as MCC approval for Médecins Sans Frontières to use generic linezolid paves the way for national registration and access.
For patients waiting for XDR-TB treatment in Romania, someday never comes (post with simple image)
For Romanians with XDR-TB, except for the lucky few who get on a bus or a plane and become medical refugees, throwing themselves at the mercy of other European countries, someday never comes.
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