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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)
    Libya: Mental health support needed after Storm Daniel destroys Derna
    Libya
    Libya: Mental health support needed after Storm Daniel destroys Derna
    Two weeks after Storm Daniel caused devastating floods that engulfed Derna and killed thousands in a few hours, search and rescue operations are about...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    Mental health
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders prepares for medical response in Derna
    Libya
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders prepares for medical response in Derna
    As Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Libya begin medical activities in the cities of Derna and Susah one week after th...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders teams assess needs in Storm Daniel aftermath
    Libya
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders teams assess needs in Storm Daniel aftermath
    A Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team has arrived on 13 September 2023 evening from Misrata to Tobruk, east Libya and is due...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    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
    Lithuania: Repeated pushbacks at the border causing mental and physical suffering to people on the move
    Europe
    Lithuania: Repeated pushbacks at the border causing mental and physical suffering to people on the move
    Asylum seekers and migrants, including families with young children, are being subjected to repeated pushbacks between the borders of Lithuania and Be...
    Refugees
    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
    Hundreds of migrants detained after mass arrests in Tripoli
    Libya
    Hundreds of migrants detained after mass arrests in Tripoli
    “More than 600 migrants,asylum seekers and refugees,peacefullydemonstratingforrelocation,protection, and evacuation fromLibya werearrested andmovedto ...
    Refugees
    Central Mediterranean: almost 400 people rescued in less than two days
    Europe
    Central Mediterranean: almost 400 people rescued in less than two days
    The team on board the Geo Barents have conducted five rescues in less than two days in extremely challenging conditions. Many among the survivors are ...
    Search and Rescue