Malawian doctor leads ‘kinder’ TB breakthrough

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Malawian doctor leads ‘kinder’ TB breakthrough - Treatment consisting of four drugs showed 89% of patients were cured, compared with 52% getting the more complicated tuberculosis treatment

The World Health Organisation announced this week that it will update its global guidance on tuberculosis treatment after a clinical trial led by Bern-Thomas Nyang’wa, a British-Malawian doctor and director of medical services at Doctors Without Borders .

“Little progress was being made to find kinder treatments; diseases that are most prevalent in low- and middle-income countries don’t attract investment,” he said. About half a million people fall sick each year with drug-resistant tuberculosis, MSF said. Many of them are in low income countries. But two of the drugs in the new ground-breaking treatment are sold by big pharmaceutical companies at prices that make it prohibitively expensive — about $800 for the six-month dosage required.

 

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