DR-TB Drugs under the microscope: 2nd edition
Sources and prices for drug-resistant tuberculosis medicines
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Organization: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Access Campaign, The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Year: November 2012
Document Type: Report
Abstract/Summary: This report focuses on just some of the many factors that hamper the scaling up of DR-TB treatment – the limited availability and high cost of quality-assured medicines for resistant strains of the disease, owing to an insecure market and insufficient demand; and the research questions that remain unsolved with existing medicines.
Finally, as the R&D pipeline prepares to deliver the first new compounds for TB in close to half a century, the report provides an initial assessment of the approaches to be taken in order to radically transform our ability to respond to this plague.
Disease/Therapeutic Area: Tuberculosis
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Global Health Market Dynamics 