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Tuberculosis: Doctors Without Borders launches unprecedented project to tackle underdiagnosis among children
India
Tuberculosis: Doctors Without Borders launches unprecedented project to tackle underdiagnosis among children
Tuberculosis (TB) in children is a silent scourge: one child dies of tuberculosis every three minutes and more than half of all children with TB are n...
Tuberkulosis
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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...
Tuberkulosis
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...
Tuberkulosis
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...
peperangan dan conflik
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kesihatan mental
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...
Tuberkulosis
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...
Bencana alam
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.
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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
Marawi: Displaced communities living with COVID-19 and ongoing uncertainty
Philippines
Marawi: Displaced communities living with COVID-19 and ongoing uncertainty
When the number of patients with confirmed COVID-19 began to rise in March 2020, the Philippines quickly put in place strict community quarantine meas...
COVID-19 (penyakit Koronavirus)
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