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MDR-TB: Speeding Up Research Efforts

Tuberculosis, or TB, is an infectious disease that is treated with antibiotics. But some bacteria have found ways to resist or fight off the drug due to incorrectly administered treatment. When the two main antibiotics stop being effective against the disease, it is labeled multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB.

MDR-TB is a real killer, and a major public health issue, but for the past fifty years it has largely been ignored. Now, the needs of patients suffering from tuberculosis are finally being addressed, and patients with MDR-TB can now hope to have access to effective treatments within the next few years. 
 Videos and Photos - 23 Mar 2015
 
Jariatu, an MSF 'care-giver' looking after a 9mo baby

Ebola: Pushed to the limit, and beyond

"For the Ebola outbreak to spiral this far out of control required many institutions to fail. And they did, with tragic and avoidable consequences."
 Videos and Photos - 22 Mar 2015
 

Ebola: Pushed to the limit and beyond

MSF releases a critical analysis of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa over the past year, revealing the shortcomings of the global response to the crisis and warning that the outbreak is not yet over.
 Press Release - 20 Mar 2015
 
Watsan Team disinfects Freetown Houses

POLOKWANE CITY: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team to tour Limpopo to raise funds, awareness for emergency relief

A team of Doctors Without Borders (MSF)’s fundraisers will embark on a two week-long tour in Limpopo to raise funds and awareness about the organisation’s medical relief work.
 Latest News - 19 Mar 2015
 
Tuberculosis

MDR-TB strain in Eswatini not detectable by most advanced rapid diagnostic tests

More than a quarter of MDR-TB strains isolated in a national survey in Eswatini carry a mutation that is undetectable by the advanced rapid molecular diagnostic tests currently in widespread use.
 Press Release - 19 Mar 2015
 
Syria

Syria: “Like an endless night – that’s getting darker and darker”

In Northern Homs, approximately 350,000 people have been under siege for more than one year. Barrel bombs and clashes on several frontlines are the daily reality.
 Press Release - 17 Mar 2015
 

ROODEPOORT NORTHSIDER: The Aurum Institute salutes

The Aurum Institute has made a R135 000 contribution toward fighting Ebola.
 Latest News - 13 Mar 2015
 

LOWVELDER: Doctors Without Borders-team in the Lowveld to raise awareness

Doctors Without Borders (MSF)'s face-to-face fundraising team is in the city as part of a three-week tour where they will be able to interact with shoppers at I’langa Mall and Riverside Mall to raise funds for MSF.
 Latest News - 13 Mar 2015
 
Syria

Aleppo: surviving on a fragile humanitarian lifeline

The brutal violence against the medical mission has put the healthcare system on the verge of collapse in Syria.
 Press Release - 11 Mar 2015
 
Syria

MSF: Four years into the Syrian conflict, medical aid is paralysed by lack of access

As the war in Syria enters its fifth year, desperately-needed aid is failing to reach millions of people who are trapped by the conflict, and a massive increase in medical assistance is required.
 Press Release - 11 Mar 2015