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August 16, 2021: Global partners working to tackle the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic have announced the latest in a package of measures to increase supply security and availability of a short-course TB preventive therapy (TPT).

Fixed-dose combination therapy reduces the weekly pill burden from nine to three for adults and prevents TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease.

-- Fixed-dose combination treatments reduce the pill burden from nine to three pills a week for adults and prevent TB in those at highest risk of developing the disease

-- Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe will be the first countries out of a total of 12 to provide the new regimen at a US$15 price thanks to funding from Unitaid, PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria