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Drug-resistant TB

School-going TB patients speak out about a crisis in adolescent TB healthcare 

MSF warns that adolescents are being fatally neglected in the response to TB and DR-TB in South Africa, and calls on the Department of Basic Education to expedite plans to implement school-based TB education and TB screening in collaboration with the Department of Health.
 Press Release - 24 Mar 2017
 
Drug-resistant TB

Xoliswa Harmans: "Turning support for TB patients into a community tradition"

In Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape Town, TB doctors know who to call when patients with drug-resistant forms of the disease stop taking treatment: MSF counsellor Xoliswa Harmans. 
 Fieldworkers Stories - 24 Mar 2017
 
Drug-resistant TB

Fewer than 5% of people in need are treated with new TB drugs, nearly four years after their approval

Companies and countries must take urgent action to increase access to these life-saving treatment
 Press Release - 23 Mar 2017
 
Malnutrition

Thousands of wounded and sick coming from western Mosul

As fighting rages in Mosul, civilians in the city are caught in the crossfire with limited access to lifesaving medical care.
 Press Release - 23 Mar 2017
 

Mosul: "I've been through many wars, but I've never seen something like this"

Since the inauguration of MSF's field trauma hospital, the facility has received more than 915 patients. Of these, 763 suffered war related trauma, 190 of whom were classified as ‘red’ cases in need of urgent lifesaving surgery. 
 - 23 Mar 2017
 
Drug-resistant TB

Open letter regarding registration and availability of delamanid in South Africa

We are writing regarding the urgent need for greater availability and access to delamanid in South Africa.
 Speech - 22 Mar 2017
 
Drug-resistant TB

A Grueling Fight against TB

Diagnosed with Multi-Drug Resistant TB (MD-RTB) and started treatment in March 2013. Six months into her treatment, the disease was not responding and the tuberculosis bacteria had become resistant to the medicines used.
 Videos and Photos - 17 Mar 2017
 

Urgent humanitarian assistance needed in South Sudan

Over the last weeks, fighting in the Greater Upper Nile region has left the town of Wau Shilluk deserted, and now thousands of vulnerable people who fled the violence are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
 Latest News - 17 Mar 2017
 
HIV/Aids

Fleeing from Wau Shillik with very little to survive on.

Fighting in the Greater Upper Nile region has left the town of Wau Shilluk deserted, and now thousands of vulnerable people who fled the violence are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
 Patient and Staff Stories - 17 Mar 2017
 
Drug-resistant TB

"Now I am better" - A grueling fight against TB

Every year, on average 7000 people in Eswatini are diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB), of which around 900 will develop Drug Resistant TB (DR-TB).
 Patient and Staff Stories - 17 Mar 2017