An improved treatment option
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- Age-adapted, easy-to-use, affordable, and non-patented tablet, for the treatment of Chagas
- disease in infants and young children under 2 years of age (20 kg body weight).
- Contributes to improved dosing accuracy, safety, and adherence to treatment
- Granted registration by Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), with further endemic countries targeted for obtaining registration.
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Main advantages of the Paediatric dosage form of Benznidazole
- A single tablet allows coverage of a wide age range, up to 2 years old or body weight 20 kg
- Child-adapted dose of 12.5 mg per tablet
- Easily dispersible tablet to facilitate oral administration
- No need for tablet fractionation (except for low-birth weight babies <2.5 kg: half a tablet)
- Simple and reliable administration that does not require complex preparation and can therefore be administered at home, even during the long duration of treatment (twice daily for 60 days)
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A collaborative partnership
| Result of a three-year collaborative partnership, starting in 2008, between DNDi and the Pernambuco State Pharmaceutical Laboratory (Laboratório Farmacêutico do Estado de Pernambuco; LAFEPE) of Brazil. LAFEPE is the second largest public laboratory in Brazil and the only producer of benznidazole in the world. |
Download Paediatric Benznidazole dossier (12/2011) [PDF]
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