MSF calls for urgent action as governments and donors are failing children with TB

October 15, 2024

Too many children with TB are neither tested nor treated, with many countries failing at the first hurdle: updating policy guidelines in line with WHO recommendations. Geneva, 15 October 2024 - A new report released today by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without...

MSF launches unprecedented project to tackle under-diagnosed tuberculosis among children

March 18, 2024

Tuberculosis (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...

MSF warns governments are failing to test, treat and prevent TB in children

November 14, 2023

Governments 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...

Afghanistan: The MSF hospital in Kandahar provides hope for people with TB

December 8, 2022

Jawahira was referred to the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Kandahar earlier this year from a clinic in Daikundi, central Afghanistan. “I used to visit private clinics, but instead of giving me TB medication, they usually just...

Tuberculosis: Sustainable solutions for children and adolescents at risk of drug-resistant TB

March 24, 2021

They walked in single file through the narrow alleyways, winding away from their tin shack in Cape Town towards the health centre. Keitu – just 11 years old – carried her baby brother on her back since their mother was...