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New tuberculosis drug regimen will move to landmark Phase 3 clinical trial (post with simple image)
STAND trial will test the first regimen designed to significantly shorten and simplify the treatment of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB.
South Africa: "This disease is for heroes. If you can fight this, you can stand anything in this world" (post with simple image)
Siyabulela Qwaka is the latest patient cured of drug resistant TB in MSF’s project in Khayelitsha, South Africa. His story is an inspiration for the others currently fighting the new form of tuberculosis against which existing drugs are of limited effectiveness.
Otsuka wins European marketing authorization for Deltyba™ (delamanid) (post with simple image)
Deltyba has been granted a marketing authorization for use as part of an appropriate combination regimen for MDR-TB in adult patients when an effective treatment regimen cannot otherwise be composed for reasons of resistance or tolerability.
UNITAID approves grants of $160 million (post with simple image)
Breakthrough new medicines for drug-resistant TB to be made available for low- and middle-income countries as part of $160 million of new grants funded by UNITAID.
TAG: An Activist’s Guide to Tuberculosis Drugs (post with simple image)
The guide provides a summary of safety and efficacy data for drugs currently in use to treat TB. It also highlights research and access gaps for advocacy by activists, clinicians, and others working in TB.
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.
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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