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.
5-17 | Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are pleased that, having shared the results of TB-PRACTECAL, our clinical trial that found a new, safer and more effective six-month oral treatment regimen for multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), the World Health Organization (WHO) have announced it will update global guidance on treatment. Following the results of MSF’s trial the WHO are now recommending programmatic use of the 6- month BPaLM regimen – comprising bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid (600 mg) and moxifloxacin in MDR-TB patients in pla
11-4 | Following the release of US pharmaceutical company Moderna’s astronomical third quarter 2021 sales figures from its only product, the COVID-19 vaccine, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) urged the company to immediately share its mRNA vaccine technology and know-how through the World Health Organization's (WHO) COVID-19 mRNA vaccine technology transfer Hub in South Africa.