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New TB drugs being tested in India
Friday March 01, 2013 07:49:15 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Research
institutes in the country are undertaking trials to test new drugs
to treat tuberculosis including the drug-resistant variety, Health
Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said Friday.
Indian research institutions are undertaking trials to test drugs,
including Bedaquiline, Delaminid and PA-824, to treat both drug
sensitive and resistant TB, Azad said replying to a question by MP
H.K. Dua during a Rajya Sabha session.
He said the National Institute of Research in TB, Chennai, and All
India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, were part of
global trials for new TB drug Bedaquiline (TMC207).
Azad said no application under the drugs and cosmetic rules had
been received by the the Drug Controller General of India (DGCI)
for the grant of permission for any drug from the United States.
A new drug can only be introduced in the Indian market after due
approval from DCGI.
The minister said at present, the replacement of drugs used under
the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme was not
required.
Those patients who suffer from drug-resistant TB are treated with
a regime containing drugs to which the TB bacillus was not
resistant, he said.
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