Drug to Treat Chagas Disease to Become Available in the U.S.

Press releaseDrug to Treat Chagas Disease to Become Available in the U.S.August 31, 2017Pharmaceutical company Chemo Group announced today that it will make a drug to treat the neglected tropical disease Chagas available to people in the United States. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ’s (FDA) approval of the drug, benznidazole, means that Chagas pediatric patients in the U.S. could receive access to a therapy that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been using for decades to treat people living with Chagas across Latin America. Though Chagas affects an estimated 300,000 people in the U.S., the treatment was previously only available through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was not FDA approved.

Source: MSF News - August 31, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Brienne Prusak Source Type: news