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Myanmar: Two new drugs launched ahead of World TB Day (post)
March 23, 2016 - Myanmar will have cause to celebrate World TB Day tomorrow, as health organisations start attacking some of the most difficult-to-cure forms of the disease with two new drugs.
MSF responds to Indian Health Ministry’s notification on ban of 344 fixed dose combinations drugs (post)
“MSF welcomes the Indian Ministry of Health’s 10th March notification [i] on the prohibition of manufacture, sale and distribution of certain fixed dose combination (FDCs) drugs that put public health and lives of people at risk. The list of banned drugs includes several FDCs containing multiple antibiotics that have long been used injudiciously, contributing to the development of resistant strains of infection-causing bacteria.
Private aid agency in South Korea delivers TB medicines to North Korea (post)
SEOUL, March 25 -- A private aid agency in South Korea said Friday that it has delivered medicines to treat tuberculosis to North Korea, the first humanitarian aid to the North after Pyongyang carried out its fourth nuclear test in January.
South Africa: New clinical trial may shorten TB treatment for kids (post)
About a million children develop tuberculosis (TB) annually around the world and when they do, they are often forced to try to take tiny handfuls of adult-sized tablets for months. Now, local researchers are looking at ways to make TB treatment for kids shorter and easier.
New drug combinations could significantly improve tuberculosis treatment (post)
Researchers from UCLA and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have made an important step toward a substantially faster and more effective treatment for tuberculosis, which infects some 10 million people and causes 1.5 million deaths each year.
Delamanid clinical access programme expected in South Africa (post)
The South African National Department of Health is expected to roll out a clinical access programme to allow drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients access to the new drug delamanid.
India: Drug-resistant TB and a promising drug (post)
World TB Day commemoration events for 2016 have just concluded. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced that bedaquiline, the first new TB drug in over 40 years, will be now available in India. It had been given accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in December 2012. Announcing its availability, the Ministry indicated it would be available only at six sites; in the first lot, only 600 doses will come.
India: Rollout of daily drug regimen for TB treatment delayed (post)
Delays in drug procurement at the Centre seems to have affected the rollout of the daily drug regimen for the treatment of tuberculosis under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) in Kerala as well as in the four other States where the programme was to have been piloted by March this year.
The role of moxifloxacin in tuberculosis therapy (post)
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