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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
19 hours ago
From
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Finance and funding
Congress Cuts Funding For State ADAP Programs

The failure of a US Senate spending bill to include $35 million in funding for HIV medications will jeopardize the ability of state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs to offer prescription drugs to nearly 8,000 low-income people living with the virus, according to patient advocates.

Published
22 hours ago
From
Pharmalot
Tuberculosis and HIV
Advocates See Historic Chance to Turn Tide on TB

Patients, doctors and international aid groups are calling on donors and governments to support measures that would make treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis more effective and accessible.

Published
23 hours ago
From
Inter Press Service
UNAIDS calls for Zero parallel systems for HIV and TB

UNAIDS is calling for Zero parallel systems for HIV and TB. This means that HIV and TB systems should be fully integrated, every person living with HIV is tested for TB and that every person with TB is offered an HIV test, and people with TB who are HIV-positive are started on antiretroviral treatment immediately.

Published
20 March 2013
From
UNAIDS
UK health services
In the new NHS lawyers, not GPs, will be in the driving seat

With less than two weeks to go before clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) take responsibility for almost all our healthcare, they still don't know officially whether they will be free to go on commissioning work from NHS hospitals, or whether they will be forced to open it up to private providers.

Published
20 March 2013
From
The Guardian
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
UK health services
Jeremy Hunt accused of 'grossly unfair' allocation of public health funding

London's wealthy boroughs have been given more money than poorer areas to tackle smoking and obesity

Published
19 March 2013
From
The Guardian
Hepatitis C treatment
Roche’s Pegasys receives EU approval for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in children five years of age and older

Roche announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has expanded the approval of Pegasys (peginterferon alfa-2a) plus ribavirin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV). The new label includes children and adolescents five years of age and older, who have not received treatment and who have tested positive for the virus.

Published
19 March 2013
From
Roche press release
Access to medicines and treatment
Athens urged to import generic drugs

Public health advocates are petitioning the Greek government to overturn patent protection on costly medicines and import them from low-cost generic producers to ease the burden on the country’s medical system.

Published
18 March 2013
From
Financial Times
Drug-resistant TB
World Health Organization and Global Fund cite tuberculosis threat

WHO and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria said today that strains of tuberculosis with resistance to multiple drugs could spread widely and highlight an annual need of at least US$ 1.6 billion in international funding for treatment and prevention of the disease.

Published
18 March 2013
From
World Health Organization
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