MSF Georgia

Georgia: endTB partnership launches clinical trial to target toughest strains of tuberculosis

Mon, 06 Mar 2017 12:42:50 +0000

TB has overtaken HIV as the deadliest infectious disease, killing 1.8 million worldwide last year.

Gallery: Providing comprehensive treatment for patients with tuberculosis

Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:27:46 +0000

MSF is one of the biggest non-governmental providers of tuberculosis (TB) treatment – including for drug-resistant TB - in the world.

Drug resistant-TB patients cured after two years of treatment

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Jocelyne Madrilène, who has worked for two years as field coordinator and the past five months as the MSF head of mission, explains why these recoveries are satisfying, for both patients and the entire medical staff.

Georgia - two months on, uncertainty remains for many

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In Gori and Tbilisi, the MSF teams continue to provide medical and psychological care to displaced persons, distribute essential non-food items and provide health facilities in need with medicines.

Georgia: A day assisting displaced people in Tbilisi

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is continuing to deliver medical care and distributing basic relief supplies to displaced people in and around Tbilisi.

Georgia: Tbilisi a haven for displaced people

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams are providing medical aid to those who have fled the fighting among Russians, Ossetians, and Georgians in South Ossetia, chiefly offering medical attention to people in shelters, some of them very elderly.

MSF medical team has visited Tskhinvali hospital, South Ossetia

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

An Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency team based in Tbilisi has been able to gain access to the separatist province of South Ossetia and visit Tskhinvali Hospital.

MSF continues seeking access to South Ossetia, while assisting people displaced by the conflict

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In the last three days in Georgia, MSF assessed camps for displaced persons in and around the city of Tbilisi, where around 20 settlements have been established, and in the city of Gori, but is still unable to access South Ossetia.

MSF teams in Georgia and region: concerns about interrupted TB treatment

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is active with the situation of thousands of people who have fled the conflict, and is also alarmed at the possible interruption of treatment for drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) programmes in Georgia and Abkhazia.

An MDR-TB patient in Georgia ...

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Omar, 39 is suffering from multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and has been under the care of the MSF team in Zugdidi, Georgia, since last July. Two months after starting his treatment, he was able to leave hospital to continue being looked after at home.