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    Landmark Clinical Trial Redefines Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Options
    India
    Landmark Clinical Trial Redefines Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Options
    endTB Clinical Trial Offers Multiple New Shortened Drug Regimens to Treat Adults and Children with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Honduras: Fighting dengue with mosquitoes, an innovation to protect people from deadly disease
    Honduras
    Honduras: Fighting dengue with mosquitoes, an innovation to protect people from deadly disease
    To combat a rapidly growing public health crisis in Honduras, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is working closely with local c...
    Climate emergency
    Doctors Without Borders calls again on J&J to withdraw or abandon extended patents on lifesaving TB drug, main patent expires in India today
    India
    Doctors Without Borders calls again on J&J to withdraw or abandon extended patents on lifesaving TB drug, main patent expires in India today
    Recent deal offering controlled generics access in limited countries does not go far enough.
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Access to medicines
    South Africa: Thousands experiencing difficult access to water after KwaZulu-Natal’s devastating flash floods
    South Africa
    South Africa: Thousands experiencing difficult access to water after KwaZulu-Natal’s devastating flash floods
    Following the catastrophic flash flooding in the eThekwini region in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province, Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Fro...
    Natural disasters
    Doctors Without Borders warns of health and humanitarian impacts of climate change  in new 2021 Lancet Countdown Report
    Somalia
    Doctors Without Borders warns of health and humanitarian impacts of climate change in new 2021 Lancet Countdown Report
    Doctors Without Borders / MédecinsSansFrontières(MSF) is paying close attention to the impact climate change will have on patients and our emergency...
    Climate emergency
    South Africa Unrest: Supporting overstretched health centres and vulnerable communities in the aftermath of the violence
    South Africa
    South Africa Unrest: Supporting overstretched health centres and vulnerable communities in the aftermath of the violence
    After a week of unrest in the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces, people still feel the effects of the violence with many vulnerable communities – pa...
    War and conflict
    As appalling tragedies unfold in the central Mediterranean, Doctors Without Borders is determined to return to sea, after Geo Barents detained in Italy
    Italy
    As appalling tragedies unfold in the central Mediterranean, Doctors Without Borders is determined to return to sea, after Geo Barents detained in Italy
    Hundreds of lives are being lost in the central Mediterranean whilehumanitarian NGO vesselsaredetained, warns Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans ...
    Refugees
    War and conflict
    MSF: Governments off track on providing tools to prevent TB, the second biggest infectious disease killer after COVID-19
    South Africa
    MSF: Governments off track on providing tools to prevent TB, the second biggest infectious disease killer after COVID-19
    As the World Health Organization (WHO) convenes a ‘call to action’ tomorrow on the need to scale up access to preventive treatment for tuberculosis (T...
    Tuberculosis (TB)