South Africa

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
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India 2011 © Anna Surinyach/MSF Barcelona, New Delhi -- Bihar state, in the northeast of India, is an epicentre of kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis), a neglected tropical disease...

Press Release – Last updated 15 March 2012
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The treatment of multi drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) is complicated by the fact that most medicines have poorly established efficacy and are associated with a relatively high frequency of side effects....

In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 08 February 2012
www.msfaccess.org/content/linezolid-treatment-complicated-drug-resistant-tuberculosis-systematic-review-and-meta

Affordable medicines from India under two-fold attack ! February 2012: This month sees a double attack on India’s role as ‘the pharmacy of the developing world’ that could...

Web article – Last updated 10 February 2012
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Loss to follow-up (LTF) challenges the reporting of antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes, since it encompasses patients alive but lost to programme and deaths misclassified as LTF. We describe...

In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 17 February 2011
www.msfaccess.org/content/correcting-mortality-among-patients-lost-follow-antiretroviral-therapy-south-africa-cohort

A closer look at availability of recommended cryptococcal meninigitis drugs: the case of South Africa Annually over 7,000 cases of cryptococcal meningitis are reported in South Africa; this number...

Briefing – Last updated 07 December 2011
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At the 2006 International AIDS Conference (http://www.aids2006.org/), an impressive range of new therapeutic developments for HIV/AIDS were described. Several new drugs, and new drug classes (entry...

In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 28 November 2006
www.msfaccess.org/content/treating-hiv-developing-world-getting-ahead-drug-development-curve

When the Group of 20 (G20) nations, including South Africa, meet in France from November 3-4, one of the key items on the agenda will be a proposal for a financial transaction tax that would generate...

Op-eds & Articles – Last updated 28 October 2011
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Busiwe Beko who lives in Khayelitsha, outside Cape Town in South Africa, describes her baby daughter’s successful battle with drug-resistant TB.  Busi Beko gave birth to her daughter,...

Web article – Last updated 25 October 2011
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Mobilizing Financial and Technical Resources Must be a Political Priority in Fight Against Resurgent Outbreaks Ethiopia 2011 © Sisay Zerihun / MSF Paris/New York, 12 September 2011...

Press Release – Last updated 13 September 2011
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