Availability and affordability of treatment for Human African Trypanosomiasis.
Affiliation
Médecins Sans Frontières, 8 Rue Saint Sabin, Paris.Issue Date
2001-11
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Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a re-emerging disease whose usual treatments are becoming less efficient because of the increasing parasite resistance. Availability of HAT drugs is poor and their production in danger because of technical, ecological and economic constraints. In view of this dramatic situation, a network involving experts from NGOs, WHO and pharmaceutical producers was commissioned with updating estimates of need for each HAT drug for the coming years; negotiations with potential producers of new drugs such as eflornithine; securing sustainable manufacturing of existing drugs; clinical research into new combinations of these drugs for first and second-line treatments; centralizing drug purchases and their distribution through a unique non-profit entity; and addressing regulatory and legal issues concerning new drugs.Publisher
Wiley-BlackwellPubMed ID
11703853Additional Links
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/tmiLanguage
enISSN
1360-2276Collections
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