Call for New TB Treatment for SA
- Author:
- eNews Channel Africa
- Publisher:
- eNews Channel Africa
- Publication Date:
- 22 January 2013
- Tags:
- Tuberculosis, South Africa
Doctors without Borders is calling for the approval of a breakthrough treatment for Multi-Drug Resistant TB to be fast-tracked in South Africa. The US conditionally approved Bedaquiline - the first new TB drug to be developed in 50 years - at the end of 2012.