Stop TB Partnership

Roadmap for scaling up MDR-TB treatment now available in five additional languages

15 February 2011 - Geneva - The Global Drug Facility (GDF) has published its roadmap for scaling up MDR-TB treatment in five additional languages.

First released in November 2010, the roadmap outlines progress GDF has made to date, what still needs to be done and where high-level advocacy could help GDF to further scale up its activities.

GDF has nearly tripled the number of countries to which it supplies quality-assured MDR-TB medicines over the past three years. To ensure that future demand for drugs is met and a sustainable market is created, GDF is introducing a series of measures including a tiered market allocation system, improved forecasting, a rotating stockpile and an advanced financing mechanism.

"Roadmap for MDR-TB Scale-up: Increasing Access to MDR-TB Drugs through Innovation and Action" is available in the following languages:

Arabic [.pdf], Chinese [.pdf], English, French [.pdf], Russian [.pdf], Spanish [.pdf]