drug-resistant TB

Multimedia – Last updated 22 March 2013
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Those lucky enough to get access to care for drug-resistant tuberculosis go through two years of painful and largely ineffective treatment, taking up to twenty pills a day. Doctors and patients are...

Web article – Last updated 19 March 2013
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People living with MDR-TB and their healthcare providers call for urgent action  Geneva, 19 March 2013 — If measures to tackle multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are not significantly...

Press Release – Last updated 21 March 2013
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Few children at the paediatric tuberculosis hospital in Dushanbe look as active and healthy as Shirinmo. The little girl is bright and busy as she crawls across the waiting room floor. But get closer...

Web article – Last updated 12 March 2013
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Once considered a disease on the decline, the social and economic downfall that followed after the collapse of the Soviet Union has sparked an escalation of the TB epidemic in many post-USSR countries,...

Web article – Last updated 07 March 2013
msfaccess.org/content/ukraine-curbing-mdr-tb-epidemic-prisons

BACKGROUND: Scaling up treatment for multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis is a global health priority. However, current treatment regimens are long and associated with side effects, and default...

In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 23 February 2013
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Multimedia – Last updated 15 January 2013
msfaccess.org/content/new-drug-offers-real-potential-better-treatment-options-tb

8 January 2013, CAPE TOWN – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the first new tuberculosis (TB) treatment in 50 years, bedaquiline, to treat multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)....

Press Release – Last updated 12 March 2013
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Médecins Sans Frontières calls for rapid registration in countries with high drug-resistant tuberculosis burden NEW YORK/GENEVA – 31 December 2012 - Médecins Sans Frontières...

Press Release – Last updated 12 March 2013
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Multimedia – Last updated 17 December 2012
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