drug-resistant TB

Web article – Last updated 24 April 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/infographic-scope-tb

Uganda is one of the world's 22 high burden countries for tuberculosis (TB). Despite having a national treatment programme for drug-sensitive TB, there has been an emergence of drug-resistant strains...

Report – Last updated 23 April 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/ground-building-drug-resistant-tb-programme-uganda

Multimedia – Last updated 30 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/uzbekistan-mother-mdr-tb

Multimedia – Last updated 30 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/tuberculosis-%E2%80%93-constant-battle

Web article – Last updated 30 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/infographic-treating-tb

Tuberculosis (TB) is often thought of as a disease of the past, but an ongoing resurgence makes it very much an issue of the present day and age. New data suggests that the global scope of multidrug-resistant...

Web article – Last updated 23 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/infographic-what-tb

Tuberculosis (TB) is often thought of as a disease of the past, but an ongoing resurgence makes it very much an issue of the present day and age.  TB is caused by a bacterium, Mycobacterium...

Web article – Last updated 23 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/infographic-what-are-effects-tb

MDR-TB patient Rohatay Abdullaeva at her home with a grandson Atabek and daughter Nadira, town of Hojeily, Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan). Uzbekistan 2012 © Andriy Slizkiy Geneva, 20 March...

Press Release – Last updated 20 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/alarming-scale-multidrug-resistant-tuberculosis-requires-rapid

MSF is expanding medical activities in three prisons in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to include basic primary health care in addition to providing ongoing TB/HIV screening and treatment support. MSF has...

Web article – Last updated 19 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/improving-tb-detection-and-treatment-cambodian-prisons

MSF has stepped up the implementation of patient-centred drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) treatment programme in Armenia in order to try to combat the alarming rising rates of the disease in the...

Web article – Last updated 19 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/msf-expands-patient-centred-approach-fight-against-tb-armenia