Best-in-class HIV medicines

Dolutegravir transformed HIV care and is now the standard of care for more than 24 million people, offering faster viral suppression, fewer side effects and the lowest price ever for an antiretroviral.

Diagnostic sequencing for tuberculosis

A novel class of diagnostic technology that can quickly identify resistance to multiple tuberculosis (TB) drugs and determine which drugs are likely to work best. 

Heat-stable carbetocin

A heat-stable alternative to oxytocin, the most used medicine for preventing life-threatening bleeding in childbirth. 

HIV medicines for children

Child-friendly formulations ensure infants and young children can access safe, effective HIV treatment and achieve viral suppression earlier in life.

HIV prevention options

Long-acting prevention options, such as twice-yearly injectable lenacapavir, expand choice beyond daily oral PrEP and address barriers like pill burden and stigma, holding the potential to significantly reduce new infections, particularly among adolescent girls and young women and key populations.

HIV self-tests

HIV self-tests and rapid diagnostics enable more people to learn their status earlier and link quickly to prevention, treatment and care for HIV and key coinfections.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) tests

To accurately identify women at high-risk of cervical cancer and connect them with preventive treatment. 

Long-acting buprenorphine

A long-acting formulation of an opioid agonist treatment, which is used to reduce opioid cravings and could help reduce behaviors that contribute to the transmission of hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases. 

Long-acting technologies

Game-changing medicine delivery methods that last longer and replace the need for daily medicines, helping people successfully complete their treatments.

Low dead space syringes

Reduces the risk of transmitting blood-borne infections like hepatitis C, as well as hepatitis B and HIV, when needles are shared.

Low-tech tool to identify life-threatening bleeding after birth 

Objective blood loss measurement devices help detect postpartum hemorrhage faster and guide treatment that saves lives.

Medical oxygen

Medical oxygen is a lifesaving medicine with no substitute. It is used to treat a broad spectrum of illnesses and conditions, including pneumonia, COVID-19, advanced HIV, severe tuberculosis, and malaria, and is vital for maternal and child health services, surgery and critical care.

Medicines Patent Pool

An innovative solution to improve access to high-quality, affordable generic medicines through voluntary sharing of intellectual property rights.

Misoprostol

An oral pill that reduces the risk of postpartum hemorrhage and can be self-administered to provide a level of protection to women giving birth unassisted

Monoclonal antibodies

Monoclonal antibodies are manufactured versions of proteins that mimic those the immune system generates to defend ourselves from diseases.

More tolerable treatments for drug-resistant TB

Expanded, shortened treatment options are now recommended for all populations with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).

Next-generation mosquito nets

Enhanced intervention against malaria to combat mosquitoes resistant to the insecticides used on conventional nets.

Oxygen delivery devices for babies

Bubble continuous positive airway pressure (bCPAP) devices and oxygen blender systems offer a non-invasive way of ventilating newborns who are struggling to breathe.

Portable chest X-ray

AI-compatible chest X-ray devices that enable tuberculosis screening to reach beyond traditional health facilities. 

Pulse oximeters

A device used to measure the oxygen saturation in the blood and identify hypoxemia (low levels of oxygen in the blood).  

Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC)

To protect young children at greatest risk of malaria in areas with seasonal spikes in transmission.  

Self-collected samples for cervical cancer screening

To decentralize services and encourage more women to get tested.

Self-tests for hepatitis C

Fast, reliable self-test results ensure more people access treatment.

Shorter TB prevention regimens (3HP/1HP)

Medicines that clear TB infection from a person’s system before it develops into active disease. 

Spatial emanators

A novel vector control intervention to protect people from mosquito bites and the diseases they carry. 

TB medicines for children

Fruit-flavored, properly dosed medicines for preventing and treating all forms of tuberculosis (TB) in children.  

The RTS,S malaria vaccine

The world’s first vaccine that can prevent malaria in young children. 

Thermal ablation devices

For the prevention of cervical cancer in low- and middle-income countries.

Tranexamic acid

An effective medicine that averts death in women who experience extreme blood loss after giving birth.