3-6 | As closed-door talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement resume in Singapore this week, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on negotiating countries to reject rules that threaten to dismantle internationally-agreed public health safeguards and restrict access to medicines in developing countries.
1-24 | Governments meeting at the World Health Organization’s Executive Board (WHO EB) this week must seize the opportunity to improve serious shortcomings in the document that will drive the global community’s vaccines response in the next few years. If they fail to do so, key reasons why children continue to be missed by immunisation programmes will be left unaddressed.
1-2 | MSF calls for rapid registration in countries with high drug-resistant tuberculosis burdenMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomed the approval by the US Food and Drug Administration of bedaquiline, the first new drug active against tuberculosis (TB) to be registered since 1963.
1-2 | MSF calls for rapid registration in countries with high drug-resistant tuberculosis burdenMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomed the approval by the US Food and Drug Administration of bedaquiline, the first new drug active against tuberculosis (TB) to be registered since 1963.
11-15 | New MSF multinational study of paediatric TB/HIV co-infection confirms crisis of undiagnosed TB among childrenData from the largest-ever multinational cohort of children infected with both tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, released by the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), shows there is an urgent need for better TB tests for children.