World Health Organization Guidelines for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Letter to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO, and Dr. Tereza Kasaeva, Global TB Program Director.
Letter to Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General, WHO, and Dr. Tereza Kasaeva, Global TB Program Director.
TB is a preventable, curable disease, and the dismal lack of progress against reversing the TB epidemic is unacceptable. Last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that TB had overtaken HIV as the world's leading cause of death from an infectious disease, and this year the WHO numbers show that the TB epidemic is larger than previously estimated
Ending AIDS as an epidemic is not just the right thing to do for the health of New Yorkers – it’s also cost-effective. We simply can’t afford a status-quo approach to HIV.
TAG, CRAG, and the TB CAB issues urgent appeal for Otsuka to initiate its long overdue compassionate use program by the end of 2013.
February 14, 2013 – Today, on the occasion of Valentine's Day, Médecins du Monde and Treatment Action Group (TAG) are launching an action urging pharmaceutical giants Merck and Roche to drop their exorbitant prices for pegylated interferon, an effective hepatitis…