Access to Essential Medicines: Ten Stories That Mattered in 2011 7. Drug Shortages Threaten Moves to Expand Treatment for Chagas Disease New treatment programs for Chagas are being put on hold because of shortages of benznidazole, the main drug used to treat this neglected parasitic disease. The shortages have been caused, among other factors, by a lack of planning for new production by LAFEPE, Brazil’s state-owned laboratory where benznidazole is manufactured. As a result, MSF has been forced to suspend plans to expand treatment for Chagas in Bolivia, the country hardest-hit, and also had to slow down screening patients for the disease in Paraguay for a period. Photo: Bolivia 2011 © Vania Alves/MSF

Access to Essential Medicines: Ten Stories That Mattered in 2011

7. Drug Shortages Threaten Moves to Expand Treatment for Chagas Disease

New treatment programs for Chagas are being put on hold because of shortages of benznidazole, the main drug used to treat this neglected parasitic disease.

The shortages have been caused, among other factors, by a lack of planning for new production by LAFEPE, Brazil’s state-owned laboratory where benznidazole is manufactured. As a result, MSF has been forced to suspend plans to expand treatment for Chagas in Bolivia, the country hardest-hit, and also had to slow down screening patients for the disease in Paraguay for a period.

Photo: Bolivia 2011 © Vania Alves/MSF

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