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Unitaid unveils new report on technologies to prevent cervical cancer, a leading killer of women worldwide
News | 18 September 2024
...countries, where screening and treatment rates are low. Cervical cancer can be cured if diagnosed at an early stage and treated promptly, but until recently, many of the available tools...
WHO recommendations, supported by Unitaid clinical trials, now allow for better treatment for all people with drug-resistant TB, including children and pregnant women
News | 23 August 2024
...concluded in 2023. Although TB can be prevented and cured, over 10 million people still fall ill with this airborne disease each year, making it one of the world’s deadliest...
Landmark Clinical Trial Redefines Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Options
News | 15 November 2023
...drug regimens that can deliver similar efficacy and safety to conventional treatments while reducing treatment time by up to two-thirds. The endTB regimens represent important alternatives for short MDR-TB treatment...
New report shows 10 lifesaving health products contribute 3.5 megatons of carbon emissions per year – while also being at risk from climate change
News | 28 November 2023
...climate change while reducing emissions by 70% – including 40% that could be implemented without increasing costs. Geneva – A new report released today shows the negative effects of 10...
Overlooked No More: Access to TB Innovations for Children and Pregnant Women is a Must
News | 19 March 2024
...for TB rapidly available to everyone, everywhere, including to neglected populations. While TB can be prevented and cured, more than 10 million people a year continue to fall ill with...
World AIDS Day: Let Communities Lead!
News | 01 December 2023
...once was a death sentence is now a manageable chronic health condition if people living with HIV can access the life-saving tools required to keep the virus under control. These...
Act now for tomorrow: equitable access to pandemic life-saving health tools is needed
News | 22 March 2024
...the very beginning of the research and development value chain to the adoption of required tools. This requires a collective and coordinated effort to ensure that all medical countermeasures (vaccines,...
Unitaid announces new funding opportunity aimed at improving outcomes for children with severe anemia
News | 28 August 2024
...child without anemia. Providing three months of an antimalarial medicine has shown to reduce this risk by more than 75% but uptake of this potentially transformative intervention is limited, and...
Donor statement on urgent action required to address antimalarial drug resistance
News | 25 September 2024
Context Widespread use of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), which combine artemisinin with a partner drug, have contributed to tremendous reductions in malaria cases and deaths over the past two decades....
GAVI, Unitaid and the Global Fund welcome WHO recommendation for world’s first malaria vaccine
News | 06 October 2021
...also seen in overall hospital admissions as well as in admissions due to malaria or severe anaemia. In addition, the vaccine reduced the need for blood transfusions, which are required...