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In Early Results, Shorter Treatment for Tuberculosis Proves Effective

Taking the right antibiotics for just nine months may be as effective against drug-resistant tuberculosis as taking them for two years, as is currently recommended, according to preliminary findings from an international study.

Published
16 October 2017
From
New York Times
Drug-resistant TB
TB Alliance Moves Two Novel Tuberculosis Drugs into Human Trials

TBA-7371 and Sutezolid Help Fill Sparse Pipeline of New Antibiotics Against a Disease That Grows Increasingly Resistant to Older Drugs.

Published
11 October 2017
From
TB Alliance
TB treatment
Ukraine’s TB problem is ticking time bomb for Europe

Controlling the airborne disease takes on additional urgency this year as the country seeks to integrate into EU with a new visa-free regime.

Published
29 August 2017
From
Politico
Drug-resistant TB
X-DR TB emerged in 1990s in South Africa fueled by HIV

Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis emerged and was widely transmitted in South Africa long before it was spotted by public health surveillance efforts, and at least a decade earlier than the first reported outbreak in 2005, a  presentation Monday showed.

Published
26 July 2017
From
Science Speaks
Drug-resistant TB
We had to run our own trial for TB drugs – nobody else was doing it

Four years ago, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) made the decision to sponsor and run its own tuberculosis clinical trial. The aim was to find a new treatment regimen for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) that was radically better than what was currently available. As an organisation that specialises in delivering short-term emergency healthcare, this was a bold and new direction to take. But it was a decision that came from our frustration, anger and impatience on behalf of the more than 20,000 people with TB that we treat every year. We felt compelled to search for improved treatments ourselves because too few pharmaceutical companies, organisations or universities were doing enough about it.

Published
02 June 2017
From
The Guardian
Drug-resistant TB
MDR-TB numbers could keep growing despite improved treatment

Up to one-in-three tuberculosis cases in Russia could be multidrug resistant by 2040, and one-in-eight in India, unless more is done to stop the person-to-person

Published
11 May 2017
By
Keith Alcorn
Drug-resistant TB
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in migrants, multi-country cluster

A multi-country cluster of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) involving 28 migrants has been delineated by whole genome sequencing (WGS) in migrants recently having arrived from countries in the Horn of Africa. Although the number of cases detected so far is small, there is a possibility that more cases associated with this cluster may still be identified.

Published
14 April 2017
From
ECDC
Drug-resistant TB
Tuberculosis: Fewer than five per cent of people in need are treated with new drugs

Outside of a small number of clinical trials and compassionate use programmes, only 469 people received delamanid in 2016, while just over 4,300 received bedaquiline. All other people receiving DR-TB treatment continue instead to be treated with older, more toxic regimens that cure only 50 per cent of people treated, and cause severe side-effects, ranging from deafness to psychosis.

Published
27 March 2017
From
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
Drug-resistant TB
TB Alliance Sublicenses Promising Anti-tuberculosis Drug from the Medicines Patent Pool

On World Tuberculosis Day, TB Alliance and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) announced a licensing agreement for the clinical development of sutezolid, an antibiotic drug candidate which demonstrated encouraging results in early studies. The sublicense pertains to the development of sutezolid in combination with other TB drugs and follows the MPP's license for the treatment signed with patent holder The Johns Hopkins University in January.

Published
24 March 2017
From
Yahoo Finance
Drug-resistant TB
New Tuberculosis Drugs May Become Ineffective: Study

New antibiotics that could treat tuberculosis may rapidly become ineffective, according to new research published by the Lancet ahead of World Tuberculosis Day. The rise in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, which affected 480,000 people in 2015, could mean that even newly discovered drugs will soon be useless, the study found.

Published
24 March 2017
From
Inter Press Service
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