Items tagged with Pediatrics
The Medicines Patent Pool and Otsuka sign Memorandum of Understanding for paediatric formulations of delamanid for multidrug-resistant TB (post)
Geneva, 11 October 2017 — The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Otsuka to accelerate the development and manufacturing of, and access to, paediatric formulations containing delamanid for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
New Unitaid grants reach out to children with TB (post)
Geneva, 12 October 2017 – Unitaid’s Executive Board has approved two new grants worth a combined US$ 43.7 million to prevent tuberculosis in vulnerable populations, with an emphasis on curbing the devastating effects of TB on children.
New tests to diagnose TB in children? (post)
For children with suspected tuberculosis (TB), diagnosis is difficult and can often be painful and complicated. In a vulnerable population where many kids are being missed new diagnostics are critical. Preliminary results from a South African trial have given experts in the field, and patients, a glimmer of hope.
Risk of death very high in kids with untreated HIV and suspected TB (post)
Antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naive children with HIV infection and suspected tuberculosis (TB) have an “extremely high” early mortality risk, new findings show.
Child-friendly TB FDCs: both intensive and continuation phase are now WHO prequalified (post)
The dispersible child-friendly TB fixed-dose combinations (FDCs) produced by Macleods Pharmaceuticals Ltd. have both received WHO prequalification (PQ):
Positive LAM results predict mortality in children with HIV (post)
Children with HIV in Kenya whose urine samples tested positive for lipoarabinomannan, or LAM — a biomarker of tuberculosis — had a nearly fivefold increased risk for mortality compared with children with negative LAM results, according to recent data.
Study indicates that acting on guidelines could avert half of TB cases among children (post)
Tracing contacts of people confirmed to be sick with tuberculosis and making preventive treatment available to those at risk for the disease, could halve current numbers of TB cases among children in resource limited settings, according to researchers reporting a study of patients across a Kenya rural province.
Sentinel Project: March 2018 update (post)
The Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis released its March newsletter with many important updates, including that pediatric formulations of second-line TB drugs are now available.
The upcoming UN general assembly resolution on TB must also benefit children (post)
The United Nations High-Level Meeting on TB in September 2018 marks an unprecedented opportunity to strengthen countries' commitment to ending TB, but new resolutions should also benefit children.
More than one in 100 Nunavut infants have TB (post)
Canada’s simmering TB outbreak in northern communities is likely much worse than suspected.
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