Excitement builds for long-acting TB treatments, but research still at early stage

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Both TB treatment and TB preventive therapy involve taking lots of pills, usually for several months. Researchers are working on new long-acting formulations that might, for example, reduce an entire course of TB preventive therapy to a single injection. Data on long-acting TB drugs was presented at the 32nd Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2025) held in San Francisco, US, on 9-12 March 2025.

Read the full news story at Spotlight.


For more TB updates, check out the TB CAB Weekly Newsletter (Issue #11, 30 March 2025).

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