Reports
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10 Years of Antiretrovirals: Treatment in Malawi by MSF
A special report created for World AIDS Day 2011 that gives an overview of MSF's 10 years of work to provide treatment for HIV+ people in Malawi. The report includes patient testimonies, a timeline of...
Last updated 29 November 2011
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Out of the Dark: Meeting the Needs of Children With TB
This report will outline the current state of paediatric TB care, looking at current practices, new developments and research needs – in paediatric TB diagnosis, treatment and prevention. It intends...
Last updated 13 November 2012
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Five Lives: How a Financial Transaction Tax Could Support Global Health
‘5 Lives’ are the stories of people that MSF works with every day, whose health and lives often hang on a simple medical intervention. These personal experiences are a snapshot of the unnecessary...
Last updated 20 October 2011
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Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations
Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations explores how the particular style of humanitarian action practiced by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has stayed in line with the standards in scientifically...
Last updated 3 June 2011
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The Global Politics of Pharmaceutical Monopoly Power
Every day, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is confronted with the lack of access to adequate or affordable medical tools in the field. We face two major challenges the high cost of existing medicines...
Last updated 16 January 2009
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Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions: 14th Edition
The latest edition of Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions (UTW) released at the IAS 2011 in Rome demonstrates a growing and deadly divide in antiretroviral (ARV) prices offered to the...
Last updated 18 July 2011
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Towards Lab-Free Tuberculosis Diagnosis
Tuberculosis (TB), fuelled in part by the HIV epidemic, remains a major challenge to public health. Despite the potential for most cases of tuberculosis to be curable, TB causes around two million deaths...
Last updated 22 August 2011
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Cough Up for TB! Reports
Every day the medical teams of Médecins Sans Frontières come up against the obstacle of inadequate or ineffective tools needed to treat, detect or prevent disease – especially those diseases that...
Last updated 12 November 2008
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Cough Up for TB! The Underfunding of Research for Tuberculosis and Other Neglected Diseases by the Italian Government
In recent months, the public opinion and the media all over the world have highlighted what is being defi ned as a new health emergency. It is the H1N1 form of infl uenza that, according to the World...
Last updated 16 June 2009
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An Evaluation of Drug-Resistant TB Scale-Up
This report, written by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Partners In Health (PIH), and the Treatment Action Group (TAG) – organisations involved in efforts to increase access to treatment and care...
Last updated 6 July 2011
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