Items tagged with Drug-resistant TB
World Health Organization recommends shorter treatment for multidrug-resistant TB (post with simple image)
New World Health Organization recommendations aim to speed up detection and improve treatment outcomes for multidrug-resistant TB through use of a novel rapid diagnostic test and a shorter, cheaper treatment regimen.
Rapid Clinical Advice on new TB drugs in children (post with simple image)
The Sentinel Project’s Advocacy Task Force has developed Rapid Clinical Advice on the use of new TB drugs bedaquiline and delamanid in children.
Tackling drug-resistant infections globally: final report and recommendations (post with simple image)
The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance released its final report and recommendations warning that antimicrobial-resistant infections such as drug-resistant tuberculosis could kill 10 million people a year by 2050 without an urgent expansion of resources and funds.
Call to Action to accelerate access to DR-TB drugs: 2016 update (post with simple image)
The update informs about the general progress in the introduction of bedaquiline and delamanid in TB programs worldwide and reports on the requests made in the Call to Action issued in March 2015.
Advocates call on pharma companies to improve access to MDR-TB drugs (post with simple image)
TB advocates urge Janssen and Otsuka to improve the affordability and availability of bedaquiline and delamanid.
DR-TB STAT: September 2016 summary and updates (post with simple image)
The DR-TB Scale-Up Treatment Action Team (DR-TB STAT) released its September 2016 update informing about the general progress in the introduction of bedaquiline and delamanid in TB programs worldwide.
Advocates call for the Ministry of Health in Peru to facilitate access to delamanid (post with simple image)
TB advocates encourage the Ministry of Health in Peru to develop country guidance on the use of delamanid for the treatment of drug-resistant TB, a first step to facilitating access.
Breakthrough study demonstrates far shorter, more effective treatment for MDR-TB, with majority cured (post with simple image)
Final results demonstrated nine-month treatment had 82% success rate, compared with previous standard that required more than 20 months of treatment and achieved cure rates below 55%.
Urgent action required to end bureaucratic delays and expedite enrollment of the NExT study (post with simple image)
TB advocates addressed the University of Limpopo and Sefako Makgatho Health Science University demanding the immediate release of funds for the NeXT study.
Unknown unknowns: poverty and tuberculosis in Romania (post with simple image)
Mircea,[1] a former miner in his fifties, spent the last four years of his life succumbing to Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB)[2] at the Pines Tuberculosis Sanatorium, which is located high on a mountain. After seven years with this otherwise curable illness, his family wanted little to do with him. He was one of the many patients who doctors in Romania refer to as “social cases”[3] [4]According to Dr. Ionescu at the Pines, patients like Mircea are “repeat clients” with “no chance of escape.” They are people with overlapping social and economic difficulties, such as poverty, homelessness, alcohol use, lack of family support, as well as the social stigma that comes with having TB in Romania.
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