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Unitaid hails initiative to make treatment for drug-resistant TB more accessible
News | 26 February 2016
UNITAID welcomes an agreement by Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. and the Stop TB Partnership to make delamanid, a life-saving drug used for treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), more widely available to populations...
Unitaid study looks at delinking cost of R&D from price of medicines
News | 26 February 2016
UNITAID has published a report that asks how best to separate the costs of research and development for vaccines, medicines and diagnostics from their prices – a concept known as...
Unitaid to invest in effective approaches to end tuberculosis
News | 18 March 2016
Unitaid will invest in increasing access to improved and shorter treatments for drug-resistant tuberculosis; better tuberculosis treatment for children; and preventive therapy for populations at greatest risk of developing active...
Unitaid seeks proposals to scale up better TB treatment for children
News | 24 March 2016
Unitaid today launched its latest call for funding proposals, focused on scaling up better tuberculosis (TB) treatment for children. Innovative approaches are being sought to ease adoption of new TB...
Unitaid chair appeals for publicly funded research to defeat TB
News | 24 March 2016
Unitaid’s Chair Philippe Douste-Blazy has appealed for more public funding of research to help defeat tuberculosis, a disease which kills 1.5 million people every year. “Left to their own devices,...
Unitaid welcomes WHO endorsement of shorter treatment for multidrug-resistant TB
News | 12 May 2016
Geneva – UNITAID welcomes new WHO guidelines recommending shorter treatment regimens in specific cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis that will cut the length and cost of existing treatment by more than...
Unitaid report considers how to make essential medicines affordable
News | 15 March 2016
A new UNITAID study considers how to make essential medicines available and affordable to those in need. Drawing examples from intellectual-property issues in the treatment of HIV, hepatitis C, tuberculosis...
Mourning the dead in Orlando
News | 13 May 2016
GENEVA – UNITAID is shocked and saddened by the killing of 49 people in a wanton attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. We mourn those who died in...