Leading medical organizations team up to bring new TB treatments to those in need
03/19/2015. International organizations Partners In Health (PIH), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Interactive Research and Development (IRD) and their financial partner UNITAID will start in April the endTB project, a partnership aimed at radically changing the management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
By 2019, endTB will provide access to two new anti-TB drugs (bedaquiline and delamanid), for 2,600 MDR-TB patients in 16 countries. These are the first new anti-TB drugs developed in over 50 years and these drugs offer new hope to patients suffering from MDR-TB.
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