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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)
    Iraq: Providing post-operative care where patients need it in Baghdad
    Iraq
    Iraq: Providing post-operative care where patients need it in Baghdad
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)has decided to share knowledge, know-how and relocate the post-operative care that the medical...
    Surgery and trauma care
    Mental health
    Pakistan: Flood emergency is far from over
    Pakistan
    Pakistan: Flood emergency is far from over
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is seeing alarmingly high numbers of patients with malaria and children with malnutrition amo...
    Natural disasters
    Malaria
    Malnutrition
    Mosul, Iraq: A slow road to recovery for the city of two springs
    Iraq
    Mosul, Iraq: A slow road to recovery for the city of two springs
    In October 2016, the military offensive to retake the city from the Islamic State group (ISg) began. The battle was officially declared “over” five ye...
    Iraq: Bringing vital medical care closer to the people of Hawija District
    Iraq
    Iraq: Bringing vital medical care closer to the people of Hawija District
    Despite more than four and a half years since Iraq’s Hawija district was retaken from the control of the Islamic State (IS) group, the population in t...
    Non-communicable diseases
    Pakistan: Witnessing poor mother and child healthcare in Balochistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan: Witnessing poor mother and child healthcare in Balochistan
    In Pakistan, thousands of women and infants die each year from medical conditions that are easily preventable. In the southwest province of Balochista...
    Child health
    Maternal health
    Iraq: Maternal Health Services Remain Insufficient in Mosul
    Iraq
    Iraq: Maternal Health Services Remain Insufficient in Mosul
    It is a rainy morning in the Al-Nahwaran neighbourhood of Iraq’s second city Mosul and a group of women are lining up in front of a small medical faci...
    Maternal health
    Child health
    Iraq: Supporting hospitals to face a pandemic
    Iraq
    Iraq: Supporting hospitals to face a pandemic
    “When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Iraq in March 2020, it was quickly clear that it would be a huge challenge to the health system,” says Dr Daniel U...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Pakistan: Supporting COVID-19 vaccination activities in Karachi
    Pakistan
    Pakistan: Supporting COVID-19 vaccination activities in Karachi
    Tucked away down a dusty side street in Karachi, Pakistan, is the rural health centre of Sher Shah where Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Front...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    Vaccination