TB drug designed for children launched in Kenya Graphic The world's first drug specifically designed to treat tuberculosis in children has been launched in Kenya. | The new pill is a combination of three drugs used to treat tuberculosis, mixed in the right dosage, and is fruit-flavoured to appeal to child...
Kenya Rolls Out New Child-friendly TB Drugs Voa News This week Kenya becomes the first country in the world to roll out child-friendly tuberculosis medicines nationwide. The improved treatment was first unveiled at a conference in South Africa last year and experts say it will improve survival rates fo...
TB drug designed for children launched in Kenya BBC News The world's first drug specifically designed to treat tuberculosis in children has been launched in Kenya. | The new pill is a combination of three drugs used to treat tuberculosis, mixed in the right dosage, and is fruit-flavoured to appeal to child...
Child TB Deaths Set to Fall as Kenya Launches New Drugs Voa News More children are likely to survive tuberculosis, the leading infectious disease killer, after Kenya introduces child-friendly medicines on Oct. 1 - the first country in the world to do so. Some 155,000 children with TB are set to benefit across 18 c...
Two from city get Young Scientist award Deccan Herald Two scientists from the city have won the prestigious NASI-Scopus Young Scientist award, 2016. | Amit Singh, an assistant professor at the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, IISc, earned the recognition for his extensive research on underst...
When the drugs don’t work irinnews World leaders came together this week to agree on a global response to the escalating problem of Antimicrobial Drug Resistance (AMR), but will new measures actually reach the developing world where they are most needed? | | Common and life-threate...
At UN, global leaders commit to act on antimicrobial resistance United Nations Print | 21 September 2016 – Meeting at the United Nations today, world leaders signalled an unprecedented level of attention to curb the spread of infections that are resistant to antimicrobial medicines. | Speaking at the meeting, UN Secretary-G...
