WHAT IS DNDi DOING TO ADDRESS UNMET TREATMENT NEEDS?
Short term: better use of existing treatments
- Nifurtimox-eflornithine combination therapy (NECT), the simplified treatment for stage 2 HAT, now in use
Medium term: drug candidates identified through compound mining
- Fexinidazole: first oral new drug candidate entered clinical development from the Nitroimidazoles Project
Long term: discovery of promising new drug candidates and improved clinical research capacity
- New drugs developed from compounds identified (i.e. oxaboroles) in discovery research and progressed through HAT lead optimization consortium to pre-clinical
- Multi-country, multi-partner HAT Platform to strengthen regional research capacity
- Back-up nitroimidazoles and oxaboroles
By 2014, DNDi aims to deliver from its HAT-specific portfolio:
- 1 new combination therapy recommended by WHO (delivered)
- 2 new drugs in development
- A robust pipeline
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