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    Afghanistan: Critical gaps in paediatric and neonatal care in the northern provinces
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Critical gaps in paediatric and neonatal care in the northern provinces
    For more than two decades, Afghanistan's healthcare system has faced longstanding issues of understaffing, underfunding, and inadequate response to po...
    Maternal health
    Child health
    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)
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders is responding to earthquakes in Herat
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders is responding to earthquakes in Herat
    At 11:10 am local time on Saturday, October 7, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan, followed by three subsequent aftershocks. As of ...
    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
    Afghanistan: “It is difficult to know that we are something less”
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: “It is difficult to know that we are something less”
    The future of female patients and health workers in Afghanistan is being threatened by the recent decree issued by the Ministry of Economy prohibiting...
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders condemns the ban on women working for NGOs and their erasure from public life
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders condemns the ban on women working for NGOs and their erasure from public life
    After months of continuous restrictions placed on the female population of Afghanistan, limitations placed on their participation in everyday life, ac...
    Afghanistan: The Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kandahar provides hope for people with TB
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: The Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kandahar provides hope for people with TB
    Jawahira was referred to the Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Kandahar earlier this year from a ...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    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
    Afghanistan: Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children
    Zainab didn’t sleep well last night. The lights and the incessant beeping of the machines in the intensive care unit would keep anyone awake. But main...
    Measles
    Malnutrition