Reports
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Financing Medical Innovation Through Alternative Mechanisms
How to boost R&D for a low-cost, point-of-care rapid diagnostic test and better drugs for tuberculosis On 11 April 2008, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) convened a one-day consultation of tuberculosis...
Last updated 11 April 2008
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From the ground up: Building a drug-resistant TB programme in Uganda
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...
Last updated 23 April 2012
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Lives in the balance: The urgent need for HIV and TB treatment in Myanmar
The UN estimates that over the last few years between 15,000 - 20,000 people living with HIV die annually in Myanmar, because of lack of access to urgent lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy (ART).
Last updated 22 February 2012
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Ten Stories that Mattered in Access to Medicines in 2011
Last updated 20 December 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 26 October 2011
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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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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
Last updated 6 July 2011
www.msfaccess.org/our-work/tuberculosis/article/885
