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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)
    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)
    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
    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
    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
    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)
    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)