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Working Group on New TB Drugs

Stop TB Partnership

7 Sep 2010
by Joanna Breitstein

Posted in Events

This Week in TB – Report from Open Forum 4

While there were few new TB treatment prospects a few years ago, today there are 10 drugs in the global development pipeline. Noting the sea of change, Wednesday’s Open Forum conference focus shifted from developing drugs to speeding them through development and to the patients that need them.

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17 Aug 2010
by Working Group

Posted in Events, Front Lines of TB R&D

Open Forum 4: Key Issues in Drug Development

From Citizen News Service: The Open Forum 4 on key issues in tuberculosis (TB) drug development is all set to begin in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (18-19 August 2010). This Open Forum 4, will raise and address key issues in TB drug development, with a special focus on regulatory affairs. The Forum will include sessions on the current global TB drug development portfolio, key issues in the critical path to TB drug registration, designing pivotal trials, conducting registration trials in high TB burden countries, challenges in TB drug development for resistant disease and developing regimens containing multiple novel agents.

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