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.