TB-Practecal_Update_ENG

Short video piece with Dr Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa, MSF OCA Medical Director and Chief Investigator for the TB-Practecal clinical trial.

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Unique Identifier Code / URN MSB120949

Date taken / Date Recorded 22/03/2022 11:03 AM

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Commissioning section MSF-UNITED KINGDOM

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Additional Information / Shotlist 00:00 – 00:07
We’re proud to say we have found a shorter, safer and more effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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Since 2013, we’ve been working on the TB-Practecal trial, which is a multi-year, multi-stage, randomised controlled trial,

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that has been a large collaboration.

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Existing treatments for DR-TB can take up to 2 years.

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They include painful injections, up to 20 pills a day and severe side effects

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and after all that, only just 60% of patients get cured.

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This just isn’t good enough and patients deserve better.

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The TB-Practecal trial has established new 6-month treatments.

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They only require 3-5 pills a day and they’ve been shown to be very effective

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with up to 89% of patients being cured.

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We’ve also found that this combination of drugs has much lower rates of side effects,

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Making it much more bearable for the patients.

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These findings are a real game changer in terms of treating drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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What we need to see now, is these treatments reaching patients as soon as possible.

Keywords

Clinical Trial

Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis