John: the WHO will soon recommend the new nine-month endTB regimens for MDR-TB (2023)
prediction · status: came true · last event: came true (2024-09-27) · owner: John
In December 2023 John hoped the WHO would soon recommend the new shorter endTB regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. In September 2024 he reported that the WHO had adopted them as recommended regimens.
About: World Health Organization, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-05 | predicted | John hopes the WHO will soon recommend the new shorter regimens, meaning more people surviving MDR-TB and less MDR-TB in the world. (hedged) | MASSIVE Tuberculosis News 00:02:55 |
| 2024-09-27 | came true | John says Partners In Health helped fund the endTB trials, which found shorter, less toxic regimens that cure MDR-TB, and last week (week of 16 September 2024) the WHO adopted them as recommended regimens. | Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO 00:00:13 |