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Malaria

What is going on in northeast Nigeria?

Heather Pagano, former MSF advocacy representative in Abuja, explains the conflict in Borno and the context in which MSF is running humanitarian operations in the area.
Videos and Photos - 20 Oct 2017
 

How MSF Brought Down the Price of the Pneumonia Vaccine

In 2016, MSF's Access Campaign succeeded in getting pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline to significantly drop the price of the pneumonia vaccine for humanitarian organisations working in emergency settings.
Videos and Photos - 19 Oct 2017
 
Yemen

The last remnants of the Yemen health system

In the emergency room of the Al Kuwait hospital, Yemen, dozens of staff continue to work, even though they haven’t received their salaries for a year.
Patient and Staff Stories - 18 Oct 2017
 
HIV/AIDS

Malawi: Daily struggles of the most vulnerable

Malawi has one of the most successful, innovative HIV programmes in the region after being heavily affected by the HIV epidemic in the late 90s.   
Videos and Photos - 18 Oct 2017
 
Iraq

Mosul: Returnees face booby-trapped homes

Press Release - 17 Oct 2017
 
Tuberculosis

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment & Access to Delamanid in South Africa

Delamanid is one of the first new medicines developed for DR-TB treatment in 50 years. The standard treatment duration is for the first six months of DR-TB treatment. The WHO issued interim guidelines on DLM use to treat MDR-TB in November 2014 and on its use in treating children and adolescents in 2016. Delamanid is also included in the 19th WHO Model List of Essential medicines. 
Briefing Document - 13 Oct 2017
 
Drug-resistant TB

Limited access to new TB drug delamanid.

Limited access to new drug delamanid reduces promising treatment options available for those with drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Press Release - 12 Oct 2017
 
Tuberculosis

The end of a long TB treatment journey

When 18-year old Sinethemba Kuse from Khayelitsha in South Africa was declared cured of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, her friends, family, doctors and counsellors threw her ‘cure party’.
Videos and Photos - 12 Oct 2017
 
Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis

People still being denied improved treatment for MDR-TB

Latest News - 11 Oct 2017