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Drug-resistant TB

Treating Drug-resistant TB: “Some of our patients simply can’t wait for clinical trials”

Drug-resistant TB remains a major threat to global health: Of the ten million people who fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2016 alone, over half a million are estimated to have resistance to the most effective drugs used to treat TB, rifampicin and isoniazid.
Press Release - 14 Feb 2018
 
Migrants

Out of sight

Around ten thousand migrants and refugees are living in inhumane conditions in Italy because of inadequate reception policies.
Report - 13 Feb 2018
 
HIV/Aids

South Africa: What learners want

Department of Basic Education delays access to sexual and reproductive health services students want to see in schools
Press Release - 13 Feb 2018
 
Syria

Northwestern Syria – situation quickly going from very bad to worse

Another medical facility that MSF was supporting, alongside other organizations, directly hit in the latest aerial bombing attack
Press Release - 12 Feb 2018
 
Zimbabwe

‘What Makes a Mission’

After 11 years, and with the rate of HIV/AIDS now in decline, MSF has handed over its program at the Epworth Clinic to nurses and doctors from the Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care.
Report - 8 Feb 2018
 
Italy

Italy: Migrants and refugees on the margins of society

Inadequate reception policies leave thousands of migrants and refugees without healthcare, shelter, food and water in Italy
Press Release - 8 Feb 2018
 
Pneumonia

MSF Challenges Pfizer’s Monopoly on Lifesaving Pneumonia Vaccine in Korea

Doctors Without Borders urges Pfizer to drop unmerited patents that hinder access to lifesaving childhood vaccine worldwide.
Press Release - 6 Feb 2018
 
A child receives a new oral vaccine which is much more cost effective and easier to store.
Cholera

Zambia: Encouraging new results with single dose oral cholera vaccine

In another promising development for people affected by large-scale cholera epidemics, recent data from Zambia’s 2016 cholera epidemic has highlighted that just one dose of oral vaccine provides effective short-term protection.
Press Release - 6 Feb 2018
 
Bangladesh

Rosie Burton: "We should not be seeing cases of Diphtheria"

Rosie Burton, a British doctor based in South Africa has just returned from one month in Bangladesh, where she was working in a diphtheria treatment centre run by MSF.
Fieldworkers Stories - 1 Feb 2018