Governments must now turn words on paper into practice and take the necessary steps to save more lives of people with TB

Cepheid and Danaher have just announced that they are reducing the price of the Xpert MTB/RIF test by 20% in high-TB-burden countries, from US$9.98 to $7.97 per test. This reduction is a significant step, considering the corporations ...

MSF calls on J&J and Cepheid/Danaher to commit to improving access to key TB drug and test by UNHLM 22 September

MSF calls on Johnson & Johnson not to enforce its secondary patents on TB drug bedaquiline

MSF calls on J&J not to enforce secondary patents on TB drug bedaquiline, to improve global access to this lifesaving medicine

Access to TB drug bedaquiline, a backbone medicine for drug-resistant TB treatment regimens, remains out of reach for too many

2019 patent challenge by TB survivors, Nandita Venkatesan and Phumeza Tisile, was successful against J&J's secondary patent application for bedaquiline.

MSF called on governments and donors to speed up access to diagnostic tests, and shorter, safer and more effective treatments, for DR-TB.

Ahead of the final hearing on a patent challenge by two TB survivors, MSF urges the Indian Patent Office to reject Johnson & Johnson’s secondary patent application so that other manufacturers may enter the supply chain with more ...

Findings that prompted WHO to update global DR-TB treatment guidelines now published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that a much shorter treatment regimen for drug-resistant TB is safer and cured almost 90 percent of ...

The World Health Organization’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2022 highlights that still only one in three people with drug-resistant tuberculosis is getting treatment, and the treatment success rate for those who do receive treatment ...

A MSF report released today finds that two newer TB drugs – bedaquiline and delamanid – going off patent in 2023 presents a critical opportunity to increase access to shorter, safer and better treatment for people with drug-resistant ...

MSF reiterates that the price of a full DR-TB treatment course should be no more than US$500 per person.

Delays in supply of the critical GeneXpert TB test are unacceptable. Now more than ever, we need a doubling down on urgent actions to help countries scale up lifesaving TB testing.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced global treatment guidance with new, safer and more effective six-month oral treatment regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.

MSF highlights that TB diagnostic gap in children remains a major challenge, and urges countries to adopt WHO guidelines

The WHO recently released new rapid guidance recommending that children of all ages with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) have access to all-oral treatment using the drugs bedaquiline and/or delamanid. However paediatric ...

MSF urged all governments to support and ramp up the implementation of TB preventive treatment, and demanded that pharmaceutical and diagnostics corporations make all drugs and tests needed to implement TPT accessible and affordable ...

Next week the Indian government is expected to decide whether it is willing to override patents on two critical tuberculosis (TB) drugs following a court petition filed at the Mumbai High Court by two survivors of TB and activists. MSF ...

MSF calls on governments and donors to step up and speed up TB testing and treatment