paediatric formulations

Multimedia – Last updated 22 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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Mari Carmen Viñoles and Jean François Saint-Sauveur landed in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe in April 2009, after several previous assignments with Médecins Sans Frontières...

Web article – Last updated 27 December 2012
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Multimedia – Last updated 13 December 2012
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At last, tackling tuberculosis (TB) in children is on the international agenda. This year, for the first time, an estimate of the extent of TB in children was included in the Global Tuberculosis Report....

Op-eds & Articles – Last updated 27 November 2012
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New MSF multinational study of paediatric TB/HIV co-infection confirms crisis of undiagnosed TB among children Geneva/Kuala Lumpur, 15 November 2012 – Data from the largest-ever multinational...

Press Release – Last updated 15 November 2012
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This report focuses on just some of the many factors that hamper the scaling up of DR-TB treatment – the limited availability and high cost of quality-assured medicines for resistant strains of...

Report – Last updated 13 November 2012
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Tuberculosis (TB) is estimated to kill more than 64,000 children every year, making it one of the leading causes of death in children worldwide. But that number is acknowledged to be an underestimate:...

Briefing – Last updated 13 November 2012
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MSF will attend the 43rd Union Conference on Lung Health (TB Conference) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (November 13-17) to present our research on TB and speak at symposia on DR-TB scale- up and paediatric...

Events & Presentations – Last updated 15 November 2012
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Cindy Gibb is a nurse from New Zealand working in MSF’s groundbreaking treatment programme for children with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Tajikistan, Central Asia   It is 8 am in Dushanbe,...

Web article – Last updated 11 October 2012
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