DRUG RESISTANT TB

  • November 17, 2020
  • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
  • Category: DPN Topics
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Subject : Health

Context : Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has called on governments to accelerate testing, treatment, and prevention for TB, and for donors to provide financial support to ensure increased access to new medical tools for diagnosing and treating millions with this disease

Concept :

  • A report released on Monday by MSF and the Stop TB Partnership — Step Up for TB — surveys 37 high TB-burden countries and shows that critical medical innovations are reaching far fewer people who urgently need them, because many countries continue to lag in getting their policies in line with new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.
  • Experts said that India is still following a very conservative approach regarding the new medicines for drug resistant TB, putting lives of patients including children in danger.
  • Scaling up of new DR-TB drugs — Bedaquiline and Delamanid — is needed even more during Covid-19.

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