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    World TB Day 2023: Catching up with tuberculosis in the Philippines
    Philippines
    World TB Day 2023: Catching up with tuberculosis in the Philippines
    Working closely with the Manila Health Department, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international humanitarian organizatio...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Infectious diseases
    The Philippines: Facing the impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis in the slums of Manila
    Philippines
    The Philippines: Facing the impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis in the slums of Manila
    While COVID-19 raised awareness of the risks of airborne disease in the general population, vulnerable populations - such as the urban poor - were exp...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Infectious diseases
    The Philippines: Five years of medical care for Marawi siege survivors
    Philippines
    The Philippines: Five years of medical care for Marawi siege survivors
    It has been five years since the siege of Marawi displaced 98 per cent of the population of the southern Philippines city. Since the conflict, Doctors...
    War and conflict
    Non-communicable diseases
    Mental health
    Doctors Without Borders and Manila Health Department inaugurate mobile X-RAY van for Tondo tuberculosis project
    Philippines
    Doctors Without Borders and Manila Health Department inaugurate mobile X-RAY van for Tondo tuberculosis project
    At the World Tuberculosis Day ribbon-cutting ceremony in Tondo Foreshore Health Centre, Doctors Without Borders also signed a GeneXpert MTB/XDR cooper...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    The Philippines: Doctors Without Borders launches intervention on islands affected by Typhoon Rai
    Philippines
    The Philippines: Doctors Without Borders launches intervention on islands affected by Typhoon Rai
    Manila 17 January, 2022 – Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams will start providing medical and humanitarian assis...
    Natural disasters
    Typhoon Rai (Odette) assessment in the Philippines
    Philippines
    Typhoon Rai (Odette) assessment in the Philippines
    On 15 December 2021, typhoon Rai (locally known as Odette) formed, category 5, and after first landfall weakened to categories 4 & 3.
    Natural disasters
    PRESS RELEASE: Beware of ‘bootleg’ alcohol – it can cause blindness and death
    Iran
    PRESS RELEASE: Beware of ‘bootleg’ alcohol – it can cause blindness and death
    Hong Kong, 20 August 2021 -  Methanol poisoning, caused by the ingestion of bootleg alcoholic drinks laced with methanol, has been a public health con...
    Infectious diseases
    Sierra Leone: Living through epidemics and expanding in challenging times
    Sierra Leone
    Sierra Leone: Living through epidemics and expanding in challenging times
    “When COVID-19 came I was very nervous. I thought it would be another Ebola, which was a death sentence,” says 45-year-old Ira Jonson. Ira was heavily...
    Epidemics and pandemics
    Border clashes leave thousands homeless and in shock
    Kyrgyzstan
    Border clashes leave thousands homeless and in shock
    Some 30,000 people in Kyrgyzstan’s Batken and Leilek districts have been forced to abandon their villages after violent clashes, including exchanges o...
    War and conflict
    Refugees