MANILA, April 12 — A faster and vastly more effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis is being rolled out in the Asia-Pacific region, raising hopes of a “new...
This picture taken on April 2, 2024 shows Vietnamese doctor Truong Duc Thai and his colleague checking X-ray film of a drug-resistant tuberculosis patient at National Lung Hospital in Hanoi. A faster and vastly more effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis is being rolled out in the Asia-Pacific region, raising hopes of a ‘new era’ in tackling one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases.
The WHO updated its guidelines in 2022 to allow BPaL to be used with or without a fourth antibiotic called moxifloxacin. The following month, Brillante joined a BPaL trial at the Jose B Lingad Memorial General Hospital in Pampanga province, north of the Philippine capital Manila.“I’m very thankful that I was healed,” Brillante told AFP in his home.This picture taken on April 2, 2024 shows a drug-resistant tuberculosis patient at a treatment room at National Lung Hospital in Hanoi.
One of the biggest challenges of treating drug-resistant TB has been getting patients to take the full course of their medication. Nearly everyone with drug-resistant TB endured “catastrophic” expenses over the period of their treatment, she said. “As TB stopped being a high income-country problem, motivation to invest in research and development for new TB drugs dried up,” said Sandeep Juneja, senior vice president of market access at the TB Alliance.
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