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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)
    Yemen: Not just numbers – an alarming rise of measles in the country
    Yemen
    Yemen: Not just numbers – an alarming rise of measles in the country
    Over the past three years there has been a substantial increase in the number of children admitted to Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontièr...
    Measles
    Malnutrition
    War and conflict
    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
    Lebanon: Syrians in the country struggle to access healthcare amid fear of deportations
    Lebanon
    Lebanon: Syrians in the country struggle to access healthcare amid fear of deportations
    Syrian refugees in Lebanon are finding it increasingly difficult to access vital medical services due to reports of forced deportation and restriction...
    Refugees
    Yemen: Five reasons why acute childhood malnutrition is surging in the country
    Yemen
    Yemen: Five reasons why acute childhood malnutrition is surging in the country
    Rising childhood malnutrition in Yemen is causing preventable deaths, especially of children under the age of five. Doctors Without Borders respond...
    Malnutrition
    Innovation: Antibiogo is already implemented in DRC and Jordan, and soon within other Doctors Without Borders' Labs
    Yemen
    Innovation: Antibiogo is already implemented in DRC and Jordan, and soon within other Doctors Without Borders' Labs
    Responding to the global health emergency, the MSF Foundation is taking action and providing a concrete response that can be used immediately in low- ...
    Antibiotic resistance
    Lebanon: Lack of safe water and sanitation threatens the ability to contain the spread of cholera
    Lebanon
    Lebanon: Lack of safe water and sanitation threatens the ability to contain the spread of cholera
    The first cholera outbreak in nearly three decades in Lebanon, is unfolding on top of the ongoing economic and fuel crisis that has further exacerbate...
    Cholera
    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
    Yemen: Thousands desperate for help in conflict-hit Marib
    Yemen
    Yemen: Thousands desperate for help in conflict-hit Marib
    “We don’t have blankets to cover ourselves,” says Aafia, one of thousands internally displaced people sheltering in Yemen’s Marib governorate. “My chi...
    War and conflict