Filling the gaps
in HAT drug development
Currently, few drugs exist for the treatment of either Stage 1 or Stage 2 human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), and severe toxic side effects are a common problem. The difficulty of diagnosis, stage determination, and increasing numbers of treatment failures pose additional clinical challenges. The overall strategy of DNDi is to build a dynamic portfolio to fill the numerous gaps in the drug pipeline that have led to few drugs developed for HAT patients...
Nifurtimox-eflornithine: a simpler, safer, and more effective combination for stage 2 HAT patients
Each of the few drugs available for people suffering from stage 2 HAT has problems of toxicity, efficacy, and complicated use, and/or the risk of developing resistance...
The French Development Agency commits €1.5 million to DNDi
The grant from the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) is to support the development of DNDi’s two new drugs for malaria artesunate/amodiaquine and artesunate/mefloquine, which combine two proven antimalarials in fixed doses in a single tablet...
FINDing an alternative to improve diagnostics for HAT and other poverty-related
Control of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) depends primarily on a combination of active and passive case detection and curative treatment...

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