This MSF Access Campaign report – the eighth in this series – examines the current landscape and trends of DR-TB drug pricing and patents, and highlights challenges and opportunities to accelerate people’s access to lifesaving regimens that are shorter, all-oral and make use of the most effective medicines. 

You will find some details about the endTB project in this 2-page infographic.

You may read the full article here: Recently developed drugs for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis: a research and development case study - published in April 2022 

Authors: Perrin C, Athersuch K, Elder G, et al - BMJ Global Health 2022;7:e007490.

This document is designed to give guidance to the endTB Project sites on the response to the COVID-19 outbreak. It is intended to be a resource for physicians and other health care professionals. It is a living document that will be regularly updated and enriched. 

This MSF Access Campaign report – now in its seventh edition – covers recent developments, pricing and patent barriers for shorter treatment regimens for TB preventive therapy and newer TB medicines required for the optimal treatment of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), including an update on pediatric DR-TB formulations.

This MSF Access Campaign report – now in its sixth edition – analyses the barriers and factors affecting access to treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), including new and repurposed drugs in the framework of the new 2019 WHO DR-TB guidelines.

We provide detailed pricing profiles of key DR-TB drugs available on the Global TB Drug Facility website and estimated prices of DR-TB regimens recommended by WHO in programmatic or operational research frameworks.

This report was produced using among others endTB observational cohort data.

Geneva, November 2018

Researchers from endTB participated in the WHO Global Consortium to share updated results and the study’s implementation practices, in addition to evidence to support the transition, operationalization, and scale-up of new MDR-TB guidelines. 

This MSF Access Campaign report – now in its fifth edition – analyses the barriers and factors affecting access to treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), including new and repurposed drugs.

We provide detailed pricing profiles of key DR-TB drugs, using manufacturer responses to standardised questionnaires and the Global TB Drug Facility website.

This report was produced with endTB's support.

The Patent Opposition Database is a site that allows civil society to share resources and learn about the tools needed to oppose the application or granting of unwarranted patents on medicines. The site contains a wealth of information on existing patent oppositions, patent applications, patent office decisions, court cases and other vital documents that will inform users own preparation for filing an opposition by sharing these resources and the experience of others.

https://www.patentoppositions.org/en/about

Although it can be prevented and successfully treated, tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s deadliest infectious disease: in 2015, 1.8 million people died from it. While there have been substantial and important innovations in the fight against TB, including faster, more accurate diagnostic tests and the first new medicines in nearly 50 years, deadly gaps remain in implementing and providing access to these advances.

The endTB Medical Committee formulates recommendations for off-label and compassionate use of the new anti-TB drugs for M(X)DR-TB.

It provides advice to any MSF, PIH and IRD projects for individual patient’s management on a case-by-case basis in answer to requests initiated by clinicians from the projects.

For more information, please download the terms of reference.

Pharmacovigilance forms and other resources for staff on endTB sites.

This 20-page guide is designed to provide all endTB stakeholders with a detailed presentation of the project's four goals.

This MSF Access Campaign report – now in its fourth edition – analyses the barriers and factors affecting access to treatment regimens for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), including new and repurposed drugs.

We provide detailed pricing profiles of key DR-TB drugs, using manufacturer responses to standardised questionnaires and the Global TB Drug Facility website.

This report was produced with endTB's support.