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21 March 2013
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In response to an outbreak of methanol poisoning which has killed more than 70 people in Tripoli, Libya and hospitalised up to 1,000, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) sent last week toxicology experts from Norway to provide technical assistance to the Libyan Ministry of Health. MSF also provided supplies of the antidote fomepizole, which acts by blocking the toxin produced by methanol poisoning. The MSF toxicologists have carried out training for...
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21 March 2013
| MSF in the media
Somewhere between walking out her front door in Cape Town, taking a taxi to college and hanging out with friends, Phumeza Tisile caught tuberculosis… A small prevalence survey carried out by the international medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in the sub-district of Khayelitsha in 2008 estimated that there were more than 400 DR-TB cases each year in Khayelitsha alone…But, according to Dr. Jenny Hughes, a DR-TB...
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21 March 2013
| MSF in the media
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) congratulates South African health minister Aaron Motsoaledi on the significant strides made to increase the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistant (DR-TB), but demand bold moves to expand access to treatment in communities, ensure access to better drugs to save lives and prevent the spread of TB infection in prisons... On World TB day, 24 March, TAC and MSF will...
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20 March 2013
| Press release
– not just more money and political commitmentsJOHANNESBURG –The medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) strongly supports the commitments made today by Swaziland and South African health ministers and others to ramp up action against the TB/HIV co-epidemic in southern Africa, but urged for a vigorous response to deal with the growing threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). People awaiting for TB...
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20 March 2013
| MSF in the media
Millions of dollars have been pledged to fight the scourge of TB and TB-HIV in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region… Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called for a more dynamic response to tackle the threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB)… “Fast and accurate diagnosis is rarely available, and worldwide only about one in five people actually get effective drug-resistant TB treatment. This is due to a combination of lacking diagnostic tools,...
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19 March 2013
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Those lucky enough to get access to care for drug-resistant tuberculosis go through two years of painful and largely ineffective treatment, taking up to twenty pills a day. Doctors and patients are calling for change. To learn more, visit www.msfaccess.org/TBmanifesto
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19 March 2013
| Press release
People living with MDR-TB and their healthcare providers call for urgent action Geneva — If measures to tackle multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are not significantly stepped up, including addressing barriers that prevent both research into better drug combinations and treatment scale up, MDR-TB rates will continue to increase worldwide and a historic opportunity to improve abysmal cure rates will have been squandered, medical humanitarian organisation Médecins...
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17 March 2013
| Op-Ed
Jonathan Whittall Humanitarian aid to Syria is at an impasse as the conflict enters its second year. At the end of March leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will meet in Durban for the BRICS summit. These countries are well placed to negotiate with all warring parties on the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance in Syria. An agreement needs to stipulate conditions for deploying aid across borders and across the...
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17 March 2013
| MSF in the media
Humanitarian aid to Syria is at an impasse as the conflict enters its second year. In nine days, leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will meet in Durban for the Brics summit... These countries are well placed to negotiate with all warring parties on the delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance in Syria... MSF’s head of humanitarian affairs Jonathan Whittall talks about his experience of working with MSF in Syria, and the huge unmet medical...
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16 March 2013
| MSF in the media
"As ek my lewe kon oorhê,” sê Hugo Simonis, “sou ek vroeër op oliebore begin werk het.” Dis ’n warm Sondag in Riebeek-Wes in die Swartland. Hugo en Des, sy vrou, bly al ’n hele paar jaar hier. Hy het pas teruggekeer ná vier weke op ’n olieboor aan die Wes-Afrika-kus... Prinsloo is deur die mediese korps van die Suid-Afrikaanse weermag opgelei. “Toe ek die eerste keer sien hoe ’n baba gebore word, het ek geweet dis waar my roeping lê. Daar is niks...
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