India, April 2 -- The World Health Organization has published its first reports addressing the critical lack of medicines and diagnostic tools for invasive fungal diseases, showing the urgent need for innovative research and development to close these gaps.
Fungal diseases are increasing public health concern, with common infections such as candida, which causes oral and vaginal thrush, growing increasingly resistant to treatment. These infections disproportionately impact severely ill patients and those with weakened immune systems, including individuals undergoing cancer chemotherapy, living with HIV, and who have had organ transplants.
"Invasive fungal infections threaten the lives of the most vulnerable but countries lack the treatmen...