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India must address worrying stock out of tuberculosis drugs

Indian government drug tender process leads to deadly delay in drug supply.

Published
17 June 2013
From
MSF
Drug-resistant TB
Interim guidance on the use of bedaquiline to treat MDR-TB

This interim guidance provides advice on the inclusion of bedaquiline in the combination therapy of MDR-TB in accordance with the existing WHO Guidelines for the Programmatic Management of Drug-resistant TB (2011 Update).

Published
13 June 2013
From
World Health Organization
TB treatment
Shortages of Drugs Threaten TB Fight

The U.S., India and other nations are facing shortages of tuberculosis drugs—threatening to reverse decades of progress against a deadly disease that is becoming increasingly untreatable.

Published
06 June 2013
From
Wall Street Journal
Drug-resistant TB
Faces Of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Drug-resistant TB can now be found all over the planet, but some of the greatest concentrations of the disease are in the former Soviet Union. The tiny country of Moldova, which sits right at the edge of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, has one of the highest rates of MDR-TB in the world outside of Africa.

Published
05 June 2013
From
NPR
Drug-resistant TB
Study finds vitamin C can kill drug-resistant TB in test-tube

In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis bacteria in laboratory culture. The finding suggests that vitamin C added to existing TB drugs could shorten TB therapy, and it highlights a new area for drug design. The study was published today in the online journal Nature Communications.

Published
22 May 2013
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
Tuberculosis and HIV
The ongoing problem of tuberculosis in the UK

The report of the All-Party Group on Global Tuberculosis gives grounds for optimism; although the task is huge it provides a coherent set of recommendations that can be taken on by a new public health body seeking to demonstrate its leadership and effectiveness. Successfully leading the strategy to eliminate tuberculosis in the UK should be an agreed metric to measure the performance of Public Health England.

Published
26 April 2013
From
The Lancet (editorial)
Drug-resistant TB
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Old Disease – New Threat

In a new Report a group of MPs is calling on the UK Government for a two-fold approach to tackling the increasing public health threat of tuberculosis (TB) which is being exacerbated by drug-resistant strains (DR-TB) in all parts of the world, including the UK.

Published
15 April 2013
From
UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Tuberculosis
Drug-resistant TB
African Health Ministers Commit to Ramped Up TB/HIV Treatment

Health ministers from Swaziland and South Africa have agreed to radically change the diagnosis and treatment of the co-epidemic of TB/HIV in their countries.

Published
22 March 2013
From
Voice of America
Drug-resistant TB
The Union offers hope and practical advice on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis

The Union is marking World TB Day this year by publishing a new guide that offers clear, practical advice on one of the trickiest aspects of "stopping TB" – how to manage the estimated 310,000 patients who have multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB).

Published
21 March 2013
From
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Drug-resistant TB
Sluggish response risks squandering historic opportunity to tackle global drug-resistant tuberculosis

If measures to tackle multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are not significantly stepped up, including addressing barriers that prevent both research into better drug combinations and treatment scale up, MDR-TB rates will continue to increase worldwide and a historic opportunity to improve abysmal cure rates will have been squandered, medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today.

Published
20 March 2013
From
MSF
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