TB medical providers and advocates urge South Africa to approve compassionate use of experimental TB drug
Global health groups reached out to the Medicines Control Council (MCC) in South Africa Thursday advocating “compassionate use” of an exploratory multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment known as TMC-207 or bedaquiline. The compassionate use concept allows patients access to promising new drug candidates in clinical trials when current treatment options have proven unsuccessful and is endorsed […]