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World TB Day: Unitaid joins WHO’s call to action for shorter and more effective regimens for all people suffering from drug-resistant TB
News | 22 March 2023
...loss and kidney failure, require thousands of pills and painful injections, and cost several thousands of dollars per person. XDR-TB is particularly severe and, until recently, nearly incurable. “I never...
World Hepatitis Day: Unitaid reaffirms its commitment to make hepatitis C elimination a reality by putting affected people at the heart of the response
News | 27 July 2022
...and simpler diagnostics, innovative models for screening and treatment, and cost-reduction strategies. Chronic HCV infection can result in life-threatening health problems like cirrhosis and liver cancer. In most cases hepatitis...
Unitaid publishes comprehensive review of detection and monitoring technologies for hepatitis C
News | 09 January 2014
...the potential long-term effects that are the most damaging: cirrhosis, liver cancer and liver failure. Screening and monitoring is vital to enable treatment, but can cost $300-1,400 per patient, out...
COVID-19 oxygen emergency impacting more than half a million people in low- and middle-income countries every day, as demand surges
News | 25 February 2021
...limited due to cost, infrastructure and logistical barriers. Health facilities often cannot access the oxygen they require, resulting in the unnecessary loss of lives. Recognising the central importance of sustainable...
Unitaid makes US$31 million investment in harm reduction efforts to prevent hepatitis C among people who inject drugs and others at high risk
News | 18 April 2023
...generate evidence critical to enabling the broader use of low dead space syringes and long-acting buprenorphine, including understanding user preferences, addressing high costs, increasing demand, and demonstrating effective delivery. Both...
Unitaid calls for proposals to catalyse introduction of new insecticide-treated mosquito nets
News | 30 October 2017
...– and may be more effective against resistant mosquitoes than existing nets. However evidence is needed to support their public health value and cost-effectiveness. “New vector control tools require a...
Innovative agreement launches affordable, optimal second-line HIV treatment in low- and middle-income countries
News | 26 July 2021
...including the higher cost of producing the DRV active pharmaceutical ingredient in comparison to that of other protease inhibitors, as well as availability of DRV in a fixed-dose combination with...
Transition to new HIV treatment regimens is key to meeting scale-up goals
News | 26 July 2017
...toxicity. Once-a-day fixed dose combinations were rare. New medicines, including those used when people developed resistance, were costly. Sub-optimal care was the norm in the LMICs. Today, thanks to the...
Unitaid welcomes J&J’s announcement not to enforce patents for vital TB drug
News | 02 October 2023
...people in 134 low- and middle-income countries, many of which have the highest burden of disease and have struggled to supply the critical medicine due to high costs. This news...