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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)
    Kenya: A day in an outreach activity - Triple burden of measles, malaria and malnutrition in a family
    Kenya
    Kenya: A day in an outreach activity - Triple burden of measles, malaria and malnutrition in a family
    Bringing life-saving medical services closer to the villages holds profound significance for those living far from healthcare facilities. In March 202...
    Measles
    Malaria
    Malnutrition
    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
    Kenya: Urgent humanitarian response required now to address rising malnutrition cases
    Kenya
    Kenya: Urgent humanitarian response required now to address rising malnutrition cases
    In north-eastern parts of Kenya, an ongoing drought rages following three consecutive seasons of failed rains, making an already dire food insecurity ...
    Malnutrition
    Medics, Health Authorities and Patients: Keys in mitigating deaths from Non-Communicable Diseases
    Kenya
    Medics, Health Authorities and Patients: Keys in mitigating deaths from Non-Communicable Diseases
    Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally. According to the World Health Organisation, NCDs kill 41 million people each...
    Non-communicable diseases
    India’s COVID-19 crisis shows urgency for countries to back the waiver for vaccine patents
    India
    India’s COVID-19 crisis shows urgency for countries to back the waiver for vaccine patents
    Hong Kong - The second wave of COVID-19 is reaching extremely alarming levels in India. As of 18 May, the total number of active COVID-19 cases in Ind...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Four questions on India’s second wave of COVID-19
    India
    Four questions on India’s second wave of COVID-19
    The second wave of COVID-19 in India has been devastating, with a catastrophic rise in the numbers of new infections in recent weeks. The country has ...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19: Responding to India’s second wave
    India
    COVID-19: Responding to India’s second wave
    Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) restarts emergency response amid a surging second wave of COVID-19 in Mumbai in Maharashtra sta...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)