Press releases
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Argentina joins Brazil in producing life-saving drug for neglected disease
Second producer of drug used to treat Chagas welcomed, but more R&D is urgently needed Buenos Aires, 20 March 2012 - Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has welcomed today’s announcement from...
Last updated 20 March 2012
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MSF Calls for a Spotlight on Kala Azar
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...
Last updated 14 March 2012
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Combating Neglected Tropical Diseases: What is Still Missing
LONDON, 30 January 2012 – The Gates Foundation-hosted conference held in London today, ‘Uniting To Combat Tropical Diseases’, draws attention to devastating tropical illnesses...
Last updated 30 January 2012
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East African HIV programmes must wake up to visceral leishmaniasis
With new MSF data showing combination treatments give promising results, diagnosis and treatment of VL should be scaled up South Sudan 2010 © Olga Overbeek ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI, 8 December...
Last updated 8 December 2011
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First-Ever Treatment Guidelines Released for Major Cause of Death of People Living with HIV
MSF study shows cryptococcal meningitis as leading cause of death, but access to best treatment is a major challenge Kenya 2003 © David Levene Addis Ababa, 7 December 2011...
Last updated 7 December 2011
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At African AIDS Conference, MSF Calls For Increased Funding for HIV Treatment
NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 3, 2011 – As Africa’s AIDS Conference convenes in Addis Ababa tomorrow, efforts to combat HIV in sub-Sahara Africa are under serious threat because of a massive...
Last updated 3 December 2011
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Treatment Ends for Chagas Patients
Treatment Shortage Forces MSF to Halt Diagnosing Chagas Disease in Paraguay; New Treatment Projects Suspended in Endemic Areas in Bolivia Bolivia 2011 © Vania Alves/MSF BARCELONA,...
Last updated 5 October 2011
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World Health Assembly: MSF and DNDi call for a more rounded resolution on Chagas disease
Geneva, 17 May 2010 – The resolution, ‘Chagas Disease: Control and Elimination’, is about to be adopted this week at the World Health Assembly (WHA). While a step in the right direction,...
Last updated 17 May 2010
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"Top Ten" Humanitarian Crises: Aid Blocked and Diseases Neglected
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 21, 2009 — Civilians attacked, bombed, and cut off from aid in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), along with stagnant...
Last updated 21 December 2009
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The Fight Against Chagas: Time to Focus on Patients
MSF calls on endemic countries to diagnose and treat Chagas patients and demands more research and development of new medicines, rapid diagnosis tests and cure tests Madrid, 9 July 2009 - This year,...
Last updated 9 July 2009
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