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Global Drug Facility achievements report
Stop TB Partnership delivers treatments for 10 million people in six years
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Stop TB Partnership, 2007
This report highlights the accomplishments of the Global Drug facility (GDF) – the drug supply arm for the Stop TB partnership which works to eliminate Tuberculosis (TB). The GDF provides countries with the drugs and supplies needed to diagnose and treat adults and children with both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB. Along with drug provision it provides direct technical assistance on drug management. The GDF focuses on improving access to medicines for poor and underprivileged communities by providing drugs free of charge to patients and grants to low income countries.
The report reveals that the GDF has provided anti-TB drug treatments for 10 million people to 78 countries in the past six years. This reliable supply of drugs has been crucial both for preventing deaths and for fighting the spread of drug-resistant TB. The report also discusses other achievements of the GDF. These include: helping to build the capacity of national TB programmes world wide; responding quickly to emergencies and urgent needs for drugs; and promoting better standards of treatment for TB patients.
