New TB drug launched

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BY: Ezekiel E. Sottie
Category: Health
Nene Tettey Etti II, Asafoatse of Akwenor Mampong, being assisted by Dr Stephen Ayisi Addo, Programme Manager of the National AIDS/STI Control Programme, to cut the tape to launch the 3HP drug
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Aurum Institute in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service, has launched a new Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy (TPT) drug at the Agomanya St Martin’s de Porres Catholic Hospital in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region.
The drug, 3HP, which was funded by Unitaid is to protect people most vulnerable to developing active TB.
The target group would receive a quality–assured, affordable, short-course TB preventive treatment known as 3HP, consisting of two antibiotics that treat TB (isoniazid and rifapentine), given weekly for three months.

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