Key populations brief
Accessed November 2017
Responding to a poliovirus event and outbreak, Part 1: General (SOPs) describes the general principles and steps to facilitate timely and effective responses to poliovirus events and outbreaks, and incorporate lessons learned from recent previous outbreak response efforts. This document summarizes r...oles and responsibilities of national governments and Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) partners.
Effective 01 November 2017 until 30 April 2018
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Tackling Tuberculosis in Under-Served Populations: A Resource for TB Control Boards and their partners
Recommendations, resources and references
A publication of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society
Topics in Antiviral Medicine 25 Issue 2 May/June 2017
Ensuring Access to Simple, Safe and Effective First-Line Medicines for Tuberculosis.
Accessed in November 2017.
A review of available evidence (2016).
28-29 June 2016; Geneva, Switzerland
The END TB strategy.
Guidelines for treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosisand patient care
2017 Update
Direct acting antivirals (DAAs) have revolutionized treatment for hepatitis C. Combi-
nations of DAAs can cure infection with HCV in 12 weeks, are highly effective and
have limited side-effects. Affordability of DAAs has improved significantly, but access remains lim-
i...ted. Initially, due to their high prices, affordability of DAAs was limited in high-, middle- and low-
income countries alike. Now there is a divide between those countries where, because of intellectual
property barriers, prices have remained (very) high and other countries where generics are, or can be,
available at much lower prices. The result is a dual market
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