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Critical shortage of first-line therapy for Chagas: The story of benznidazole
In 2011, there were delays in rolling out screening and diagnosis activities in communities at risk in MSF projects in rural Bolivia and Paraguay due to the shortage of benznidazole. This was not just...
Last updated 10 April 2012
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The Search for the Best Treatment for Kala Azar in India
An Interview with Marta González, doctor in MSF kala azar project in Vaishali, Bihar India 2011 © Anya Surinyach / MSF Bihar state in northern India is one of the areas with the highest number...
Last updated 10 November 2011
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India: Fighting Kala Azar in Bihar
Visceral leishmaniasis is known worldwide as kala azar. Since 2007 MSF is implementing a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Bihar state, northern India. India 2011 © Anna Surinyach...
Last updated 10 November 2011
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MSF in Somalia: Gearing up in Galgaduud
In large parts of south and central Somalia, where malnutrition rates are high, ongoing conflict makes it difficult for international organizations like MSF to operate at full capacity. Where we can...
Last updated 1 September 2011
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Kala azar: effective treatment for a little known disease now introduced in Georgia
It may not be a widely known fact that cases of the neglected tropical disease, kala azar, have increased over recent years in the Caucasus country of Georgia. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which...
Last updated 30 August 2011
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Central African Republic: Singing About Sleeping Sickness
Central African Republic 2009 © Raghu Venugopal/MSF MSF nurse Kathryn Sisterman teachs children in Maitikoulou a song about sleeping sickness in their native language, Mbai. With help from...
Last updated 19 November 2009
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Kala Azar in Southern Sudan: "Access To Health Care Since Wartime Has Been Very Challenging"
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to an outbreak of the neglected disease kala azar in Malakal, Upper Nile State, in southern Sudan. This year, teams are seeing eight...
Last updated 16 December 2010
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Fighting kala azar in the Indian state of Bihar
Largely unknown in the developed world, Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that affects more than 12 million people worldwide. Kala azar, the visceral form of the disease is particularly prevalent...
Last updated 20 May 2010
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Germany's poor funding of neglected diseases
Abstract of report, "Forschungszwerg Deutschland" produced by MSF in May 2008 Click here for full report in German MSF teams in the field frequently lack adequate treatment options to address diseases...
Last updated 1 May 2008
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Interview with General Coordinator Henry Rodriguez on stockouts of critical Chagas treatment
“We are wasting the opportunity to put people who need it on Chagas treatment.” Chagas projects in Bolivia and Paraguay have seen their capacity to treat patients limited due to a shortage in the...
Last updated 29 June 2011
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