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5-year-old Umeda has MDR-TB. Here she holds up her star chart. She gets a sticker every time she takes her medicine properly. Treating young children with MDR-TB can be very difficult and incentives like these are used to help them take the drugs they need during their treatment.
Tuberculosis

Ready, set, slow down: New and promising DR-TB drugs are grabbing headlines but not reaching patients

Fewer than 1,000 people worldwide have been able to access the two new TB drugs – just a fraction of those who desperately need them. Project Update - 23 Mar 2015
 
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Tuberculosis

Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis: Speeding up research efforts

Ignored for the past fifty years, the needs of patients suffering from tuberculosis are finally being addressed... especially for patients with a multi-drug resistant form of the disease, who can now hope to have access to effective treatments within the next few years. Project Update - 23 Mar 2015
 
A Doctors Without Borders (MSF), health worker in protective clothing carries a child suspected of having Ebola in the MSF treatment center on October 5, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. The girl and her mother, showing symptoms of the deadly disease, were awaiting test results for the virus. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization.  (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola: Pushed to the limit and beyond

MSF releases a critical analysis of the global Ebola response one year into the deadliest outbreak in history. Report - 23 Mar 2015
 
A patient receives MDR-TB treatment at MSF’s Insein Clinic, Yangon, Myanmar.
Tuberculosis

The Luxury of MDR-TB treatment in Myanmar: An impossible choice for many

Ko Thet Oo started treatment for multi-drug resistance tuberculosis (MDR-TB) about two months ago at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) HIV/TB clinic in Insein Township, Yangon. Voices from the Field - 20 Mar 2015
 
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Yemen

MSF receives over 60 patients after Aden clashes

It is crucial that all parties to the conflict facilitate unhindered access of patients and ambulances to health structures. Press Release - 20 Mar 2015
 
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endTB

endTB aims to find shorter, less toxic and more effective treatments for ‘multidrug-resistant TB’ (MDR-TB). endTB
 
Dr Alexander Pieto attends to patients in the Malalaua TB OPD.
Tuberculosis

Leading medical organisations team up to bring new TB treatments to those in need

endTB will provide access to new anti-TB drugs for more than 3,000 people and run clinical trials to identify safer and more effective treatments. Press Release - 19 Mar 2015
 
Antonyna, 79, in her home in the village of Kuteynikovo, Donetsk region., where MSF runs a mobile clinic. She has many health problems and has not received her pension for more than eight months so can’t afford to buy medicines. Before MSF gave her the necessary medications, she was using plants to treat herself. 
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The village’s doctor was moved to another town when the conflict began so the community has been without a regular doctor for months. The local pharmacy is closed because it has not been possible to getNow an MSF doctor visits twice a week to provide free consultations and medicines.
Ukraine

Patient and staff testimonies from Lugansk and Donetsk

Antonyna, 79, lives in Kuteyniekovo, Donetsk region, where MSF runs a mobile clinic. Voices from the Field - 19 Mar 2015
 
MSF staff deliver medicines, to treat chronic diseases, to Hospital no.6 in Donetsk, Ukraine.
Ukraine

Reaching the vulnerable

Photo Story - 19 Mar 2015
 
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India

Indian generic companies should reject Gilead’s controversial hepatitis C ‘Anti-Diversion’ programme

Programme could compromise patient treatment and privacy rights. MSF releases briefing note on Gilead’s anti-diversion programme and analysis of company’s license agreement.
Press Release - 19 Mar 2015
Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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