Items tagged with Treatment

Johnson & Johnson confirms intent not to enforce patents for SIRTURO® (bedaquiline) for the treatment of multidrug-resistant TB in 134 low- and middle-income countries (post with simple image)

The decision is intended to assure current and future generic manufacturers that they may manufacture and sell generic versions of SIRTURO® without a concern that the Company will enforce its bedaquiline patents, provided the generic versions of SIRTURO® are of good quality, medically acceptable, and are used only in the 134 low- and middle-income countries.

Johnson & Johnson pricing agreement for critical TB drug still unfairly restricts access in countries where the need is greatest (post with simple image)

Unitaid calls on Johnson & Johnson to drop secondary patents for the drug-resistant TB medicine bedaquiline, and to make negotiated rates with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility available to all countries, regardless of how they purchase drugs.

Target Regimen Profiles for TB treatment and Target Product Profiles for TB tests (post with simple image)

The World Health Organization releases updated Target Regimen Profiles for TB treatment and new Target Product Profiles for tests for TB treatment monitoring and optimization.

An Activist’s Guide to Shorter Treatment for Drug-Resistant TB (post with simple image)

This new resource lays out what activists need to know about the new drug-resistant TB treatment regimens, and equips them with actions they can take and arguments they can use to advocate for access to those regimens.

Landmark clinical trial redefines multidrug-resistant TB treatment options (post with simple image)

endTB clinical trial offers multiple new shortened drug regimens to treat adults and children with multidrug–resistant TB.

High cure rate with drug-resistant TB regimen (post with simple image)

Results of LIFT-TB operational research on BPaL regimen for treating drug-resistant TB in Central and Southeast Asia.

TB Alliance launches five-country Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating next-generation TB drug (post with simple image)

A combination of a new experimental compound, TBAJ-876, with pretomanid and linezolid, has the potential to become a 'universal TB regimen', shortening and improving treatment for both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB.

Survey: Core outcome set for Phase 3 studies of pulmonary TB treatment (post with simple image)

An international survey seeks to determine the most important outcomes to measure in Phase 3 trials of pulmonary TB treatment.

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Technical brief: Access to TB testing and treatments: GeneXpert and delamanid (post with simple image)

Médecins Sans Frontières issues a report offering case studies of two critical TB tools, GeneXpert and delamanid, and outlining actions that the corporations making them need to take to unlock access to these tools.