9-28 | Governments must now turn words on paper into practice and take the necessary steps to save more lives of people with TB.
9-19 | Ahead of the global tuberculosis High-Level Meeting at the United Nations, MSF calls on Johnson & Johnson not to enforce any secondary patents for bedaquiline in any country with a high burden of TB.We also call on Cepheid to drop the price of the GeneXpert TB test from US$10 to US$5 in order to save lives.
10-28 | Since September 20, 2022, the day the Ebola epidemic was declared in Uganda, MSF has been working alongside the Ministry of Health to support medical care in the country.As of October 23, 90 patients were confirmed with Ebola and 28 people were reported to have died from the disease. Another 32 people have recovered and been discharged from treatment centres.
10-5 | Since the declaration of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda on 20 September (and as of 2 October 2022), the Ugandan Ministry of Health has confirmed 43 cases of Ebola and reported 29 deaths (nine confirmed deaths from the disease and 20 probable). MSF is working with the Ministry of Health to set up an initial emergency response to help stop the disease from spreading further.
9-23 | Immediately after the declaration of an Ebola outbreak in Uganda, which followed the detection of an infected person in the centre of the country, the Ministry of Health asked Médecins Sans Frontières to support its efforts in the fight against the spread of the disease.