Africa: TB Medicine Agreement - 'J&J Needs to Do More'

[MSF] "The announcement by the Stop TB Partnership/Global Drug Facility about a deal with pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J), for access to affordable generic versions of the lifesaving tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline, offers a short-term solution for low- and middle-income countries but the deal remains just a stop-gap because bedaquiline will only be available to a limited number of countries that will be included in this agreement, procuring through the Global Drug Facili
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: Africa External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Tuberculosis Source Type: news