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Georgia

Interview with a drug-resistant tuberculosis patient

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. Project Update - 25 Mar 2008
 
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Georgia

Home-care for patients suffering from multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis

Currently, suitable diagnostic and therapeutic tools are not available in every case, and this situation can only be improved by investment in research and development. Project Update - 25 Mar 2008
 
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Tuberculosis

New priorities, new challenges

Francis Varaine is the co-ordinator of MSF's Tuberculosis Working Group. In this interview, he underlines the urgency of identifying new diagnostic means and treatments suited to MSF's operating environment. He also discusses MSF's priorities for 2008. Project Update - 25 Mar 2008
 
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Armenia

TB care in Armenia

MSF in Armenia is working in collaboration with the National Tuberculosis Program. Project Update - 24 Mar 2008
 
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Georgia

TB care in Georgia

In its two projects in Sukhumi (Abkhazia) and Zugdidi (Central Georgia), MSF treats multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. The estimated MDR-TB prevalence here is as high as over 10 percent for new TB cases, and 57 percent for re-treatment cases. Project Update - 24 Mar 2008
 
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Moldova

TB care in Moldova

Project Update - 24 Mar 2008
 
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Russia

TB care in the Russian Federation

TB is one of the major unmet needs of healthcare in Chechnya. TB mortality and morbidity skyrocketed in the war decades since the whole medical and administrative infrastructure of the TB care was ruined. Project Update - 24 Mar 2008
 
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Uzbekistan

TB care in Uzbekistan

MSF was the first organization to implement DOTS strategy for TB treatment in Uzbekistan in 1998. Project Update - 24 Mar 2008
 
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Kyrgyzstan

TB care in Kyrgyzstan

MSF, alongside other international organizations, especially the ICRC, and national institutions, is facing the TB epidemics in Kyrgyzstan's prisons, where the incidence is estimated 25 times higher than in the civil society. Project Update - 24 Mar 2008
 
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Somalia

MSF international staff return to selected locations in Somalia

MSF reiterates its outrage at the attack in Kismayo, which appears to have been a targeted assault on humanitarian aid workers. Project Update - 23 Mar 2008
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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