Johnson & Johnson and Lupin will supply their versions of the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline at a significantly cheaper price in low- and mi...

India has the world's highest TB burden-- 2.6 million active cases and close to 450,000 deaths each year from the infectious bacterial dise...

To ensure the drug is accessible to all, MSF called on J&J to issue a non-exclusive license to the Medicines Patent Pool to allow for price...

Life-saving drug bedaquiline by US pharma company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is now being offered at $400 per patient —over 50% cheaper than t...

In its last-issued guidance in October 2016, the WHO had restricted usage to the breakthrough drug owing to concerns around its effect on t...

WHO said the expression of interest will be evaluated on the basis of product dossiers, which must include product data and information as ...

The PM wrote that the government was committed to eliminating TB by 2015, five years ahead of the Sustainable Development Goals deadline.

India's dependency on charity from global drug makers is making it hard for patients to access new antibiotic drugs such as bedaquiline and...

In December 2016, the father of an 18-year-old patient suffering from XDR TB took National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseas...

"Patients need to be constantly monitored, which is why these centres are currently administering the drug only to residents of these six s...

Starting anti-HIV treatment within two weeks of the diagnosis of tuberculosis improved survival among patients with both infections, a new ...

Completion of full course of Tuberculosis treatment and use of DOTS strategy is required to ensure full cure of the disease,says IMA doctor...

India accounts for nearly one-fourth of global incidence of TB and public health officials here are working on finding a cure for drug-resi...

The WHO reckons India needs to improve diagnosis and treatment of patients to shrug off the lethal distinction of being the world's TB capi...

India is home to 2.2 million tuberculosis patients, making it the largest number in a single country.

March 24 is World TB day. It commemorates the discovery of Tuberculosis (TB) bacillus in 1883 by Dr Robert Koch as the cause of tuberculosi...

At least one-third of all private sector dosages of first line TB drugs across the 10 high TB burdened countries fall outside treatment rec...