AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoTobacco Control: A new WHO report says 5 billion people now live in countries with strong tobacco-control measures, but support to help people quit remains inadequate. TB Treatment Access: India rejected a patent application for the six-month, all-oral BPaL regimen for drug-resistant tuberculosis, which can replace longer treatments involving painful injections. Cross-Border Care: Residents of remote Afghan Badakhshan report shortages of clinics, medicines and specialists; some travel to Tajikistan for treatment, while poor roads and high costs leave others without care. Hospital Support: Egyptian startup NoorNation, which has supplied two solar-powered desalination units to hospitals in Tajikistan with UNICEF, raised $1.05 million to expand its solar irrigation work.
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