South Africa: More MSF Patients With DR-TB Gain Access to Dramatically Cheaper Version of Life-Saving Drug

[MSF]After a three-year long struggle, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has received approval from the South African Medicines Control Council (MCC) to import a dramatically more affordable version of an antibiotic, linezolid, in order to expand access to the medicine and provide better treatment options to patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in Khayelitsha, Western Cape.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news