Doctors Without Borders and TB Advocates Achieve a 20 Percent Price Reduction for TB Test in High-Burden Countries
Following renewed activism by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and other tuberculosis (TB) advocates over the last week, Cepheid and its parent company Danaher announced today that they are reducing the price of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for TB by 20 percent—from $9.98 to $7.97 per test—in high-TB-burden countries.…