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Kenyan concerns about rising MDR-TB reflect regional public health challenge (post)
Kenya has made enormous strides in its efforts to tackle tuberculosis amongst its population, improving diagnosis and treatment to such an extent that prevalence has dropped from 335 to 299 cases per 100,000 people between 2006 and 2012. But the continuing insecurity in the region backed by the weakness of the health infrastructure in neighboring countries have maintained the flow of refugees into Kenya, and into the national health system in search of treatment and care.
USP helps expand worldwide access to key tuberculosis drugs (post)
Rockville, Md., June 10, 2014 — The US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is pleased to announce that with the assistance of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) program, the first Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) for injectables used in the treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis has been assessed by the World Health Organization and given prequalification status. The prequalification of Capreomycin, the first “second line” anti-tuberculosis API for injectables to achieve this status, is a significant development in the global fight against one of the world’s most prevalent and deadly diseases.
A new partnership to change MDR-TB treatment around the world (post)
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is one of the most serious public health problems in the world today—and the global burden is growing. That’s why we are delighted to announce that UNITAID has awarded Partners In Health a grant that will change how MDR-TB is treated throughout the world.
South Africa: Government to introduce new drug-resistant TB drugs (post)
Government’s small-scale introduction of the first new TB drug in four decades is saving lines and paving the way for more, better and cheaper drugs to treat drug-resistant TB. Many wonder if they will come fast enough for those who need them.
Roll-out of new TB drug must be handled with care (post)
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, has announced that it will make its breakthrough new tuberculosis (TB) drug, Sirturo, available at a discount in 130 developing countries. As the first new antibiotic to be approved to treat TB in over 40 years, Sirturo will be an important new weapon in the aging arsenal of medicines used to treat this deadly disease.
South Africa: New TB drug gets ‘fast-track status’ (post)
Cape Town - Patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis could soon have access to a promising new drug – Bedaquiline – as the Medicines Control Council (MCC) is “fast-tracking” its authorisation processes to have the drug licensed.
Brook Baker: MSF victorious in overcoming registration barrier to important 2d line treatment of DR-TB, but patent barrier may last a little bit longer (post)
Médecins Sans Frontières has obtained an important but long-delayed victory in a a challenge to the refusal of the Medicines Control Council in South Africa to issue section 21 permission allowing the temporary importation and patient use of a generic version of a key, tuberculosis medicine, linezolid. Linezolid can be effectively used as a treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis, but the private sector cost of taking one pill a day for two years was approximately $49,000 when the medicine was sourced from the brand-name patent holder, Pfizer, at $65/pill. Generic versions of linezolid are manufactured in India by Hetero at significantly reduced cost of only $8/pill.
Pilot project launched to strengthen ambulatory treatment for TB patients in Belarus (post)
Mogilev district, Belarus
TPP: Still a terrible deal for poor people's health (post)
When the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the U.S.-led Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement was leaked late last year, it confirmed everything public health watchers had warned about for years. The far-reaching 12-country trade agreement would deny access to affordable medicines for patients across all TPP countries by strengthening and lengthening drug patent and regulatory monopolies and delaying generic competition. Several negotiating countries balked at the blatantly anti-public health provisions, so the U.S. proposed giving the poorest countries more time to comply with a few provisions.
New hope for MDR-TB patients (post)
5 August 2014 - The USAID-supported Promoting Quality of Medicines (PQM) Program in collaboration with the Global Drug Facility (GDF) has helped attain WHO Pre-Qualification Program (PQP) approval for two important second-line TB drug products. The prequalification of Capreomycin and Levoflaxacin Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) is a significant win in the global fight against TB. This new development will save many more lives from multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) by increasing the quality and availability of TB medicines and also bringing about a reduction in price. These quality assured drugs are available through the Global Drug Facility (GDF) to countries to support their fight against MDR-TB.
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