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Global Health

FDA approves sleeping sickness drug fexindazole

by Michael McCoy
July 23, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 27

 

Fexindazole

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the first all-oral treatment for sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease that mostly affects people living in rural sub-Saharan Africa. The treatment, fexindazole, was developed by Sanofi and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi). European regulators approved it in 2018. With the FDA’s nod, DNDi gets a voucher for early review of another drug. In the past, such vouchers have sold for as much as $350 million.

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