Governments Must Step Up the Use of Newer Drugs to Fight Multidrug-Resistant TB

Press releaseGovernments Must Step Up the Use of Newer Drugs to Fight Multidrug-Resistant TBOctober 13, 2017Guadalajara, Mexico,  October 13, 2017—People with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) are still not receiving two newer tuberculosis  (TB) drugs, bedaquiline and delamanid, which have shown improved cure rates for the disease, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at the48th Union World Conference on  Lung Health in Guadalajara, Mexico, where the  global TB community is meeting.

Source: MSF News - October 13, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jess Brown Source Type: news