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An MSF outreach worker in Sudan spreads the word about free malaria vaccinations

Read about first-hand accounts from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) aid workers and patients.

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CAR: Providing Much-Needed HIV/AIDS Treatment in Bangui

July 18, 2016

Just three months after starting a new project offering treatment for advanced HIV/AIDS in support of the Hôpital Communautaire in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is expanding its activities to respond to the high demand for treatment. Here, MSF medical referent Dr. Christine Bimansha Mbombo discusses the situation.
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Myanmar: Lives Restored by Treatment

February 20, 2012

Tuberculosis and HIV patients in Myanmar are struggling to get lifesaving treatment as donors slash future funding.

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TB: A Crisis in the Former Soviet States

March 22, 2011

Dr Andrei Slavuckij, who has been following the evolution of TB in the former Soviet Union for the past dozen years, discusses the dynamics of the disease in a post-Soviet landscape.

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Tuberculosis: Diagnosing Children, a Terrible Neglect

March 21, 2010

The World Health Organization estimates that one million children each year develop TB, the vast majority of whom live in resource-poor settings.

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Patient Story: "This painful treatment is my only way out of drug-resistant TB"

October 29, 2009

“I understand what other patients are going through because, after all, I am also a patient. I take a minimum of 15 pills each day just to fight against drug-resistant TB."

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Pharmacist Alison Wong in Arua, Uganda

June 03, 2007

Alison Wong was the pharmacist for the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) HIV/AIDS program at Arua Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda from September 2005 to October 2006. MSF began the program in 2001 to provide antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to people in the region living with HIV. It has grown to include treatment for people co-infected with HIV and TB, and to establishing better decentralized care.