DNDi-led Study Finds Safer, Shorter Treatment For Debilitating Chagas Disease

15/03/2019 Divya Schlesinger

Severe side effects make the current course of prolonged drug treatment difficult for many patients with Chagas disease, but a Phase II clinical trial in Bolivia may have found an alternative treatment that is both quicker and significantly safer. Image Credits: Ana Ferreira/DNDi. Continue reading ->

UCLA Students Protest University Patent Claim On Prostate Cancer Treatment

13/03/2019 Divya Schlesinger

Students at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) renewed their protests today against a patent claim in an Indian High Court over a leading prostate cancer treatment, saying the claim, if successful, could make the drug unaffordable to millions of people in the developing world. Image Credits: Neda Ashtari. Continue reading ->

African Heads Of State Endorse Continental Medicine Regulator

06/03/2019 Divya Schlesinger

The African content is one step closer to its first medicine and health super-regulator. The treaty to establish an African Medicine Agency (AMA), meant to govern medical product regulation for the entire continent, was endorsed by the African Union Heads of State and Government on 11 February, according to a press release following the 32nd AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Continue reading ->