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New TB Drug Launched Aurum Institute in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service, has launched a new Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy (TPT) drug at the Agomanya St Martin’s de Porres Catholic Hospital in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region. The drug, 3HP, which was funded by Unitaid is to protect people most vulnerable to developing active TB. The target group would receive a quality–assured, affordable, short-course TB preventive treatment known as 3HP, consisting of two antibiotics that treat TB (isoniazid and rifapentine), given weekly for three months. In Ghana, the project is being implemented in 12 selected facilities…