11-13 | Results from the largest multi-country implementation of the new rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic test reveal an urgent need to address the growing global crisis of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), according to the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
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Many patients with drug-resistant TB that arrive at MSF’s clinic in Mumbai have received incorrect or inadequate treatment in the private sector. Although this form of TB is curable if treated early enough, some of the patients, like ‘Shanti’*, are in such bad condition that their lives cannot be saved.
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DR Congo: An alarming surge in malaria
Chad: On the brink of a peak in malnutrition
Paraguay: The scourge of the vinchuca
Uzbekistan: Tuberculose shows resistance
Haiti: Medical certificates for cholera patients
3-26 | Maternal health: Saving women's livesDadaab: Back to square oneTuberculosis: A constant battleSleeping sickness: A mobile team in central AfricaNovartis: The final act
3-23 | Alarming new data suggest that the global scope of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is much more vast than previously estimated, requiring a concerted international effort to combat this deadlier form of the disease, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said.