US FDA Fulfills Annual Antibiotic Guidance Goal With Three Women’s Health Guidances

Final guidance documents for bacterial vaginosis, vulvovaginal candidiasis, and uncomplicated urinary tract infections contain few changes from draft.

The US Food and Drug Administration met its annual commitment to review and revise at least three guidance documents related to antibiotics or antifungals in just one day earlier this year, with the simultaneous release of final guidance documents on developing drugs for treatment of three common infections in women: bacterial vaginosis (BV), vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), and uncomplicated urinary tract infection (uUTI, which only occurs in women).

The guidance documents bring FDA closer to the culmination of a nearly decade-long project of revisiting its advice to antibiotic sponsors

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