Myanmar: I have defeated TB and I wish the same for other patients
April 8, 2024Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is one of the most complex types of tuberculosis you can get. As opposed to drug-sensitive, which responds well to the medication, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, by its very name, is resistant to some of the drugs used...
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Namrata’s journey: triumph over drug-resistant Tuberculosis
March 24, 2024Mumbai, India- Namrata's story is a testament to the timeless principle that consistency is crucial. Her disciplined approach to maintaining a routine, embracing a healthy lifestyle, and adhering to medication regimens demonstrates that even formidable conditions like drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB)...
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Namrata’s Journey: Triumph Over Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
March 24, 2024Namrata's story is a testament to the timeless principle that consistency is crucial. Her disciplined approach to maintaining a routine, embracing a healthy lifestyle, and adhering to medication regimens demonstrates that even conditions like drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) can be overcome....
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Patient Stories: Ensuring recovery through timely, accurate drug-resistant tuberculosis testing
March 18, 2024Ahmad, 11, from Tatlay Aali, a town in Gujranwala district, Pakistan, was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) when he was just five years old. "We’d never heard about this disease, nobody from our family ever had it. At the same time,...
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MSF launches unprecedented project to tackle under-diagnosed tuberculosis among children
March 18, 2024Tuberculosis (TB) in children is a silent scourge: one child dies of TB every three minutes and more than half of all children with TB are never diagnosed. Taking the opportunity of a set of new recommendations by the World...
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MSF warns governments are failing to test, treat and prevent TB in children
November 14, 2023Governments must immediately implement the latest WHO guidelines to stop children from dying from this deadly yet curable disease Geneva, 14 November 2023 - Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) welcomed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ‘Roadmap towards ending TB in...
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MSF responds to WHO’s annual global TB report: implores governments to use recent TB wins to beat back deadly infectious disease
November 7, 2023The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2023 Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report released today shows that the estimated global incidence of TB in 2022 remains unacceptably high, including for the more difficult to treat form of this disease, drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). With...
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