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Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases With Different Antivenoms

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24 May 2018

Governments finally take important step to tackle global snakebite crisis

Tags Tropical & neglected diseases neglected diseasessnakebite World Health AssemblyWorld Health Organization G20

Kissing bugs (known as "vinchucas" in Bolivia and other Latin American countries) are usually found in houses in rural areas. These houses are made of adobe, a mixture of clay and straw. Photograph by Juan Renau

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31 August 2017

Chagas drug will be available in US

Tags Tropical & neglected diseases neglected diseases benznidazole FDA priority review voucher

Drug-resistant patient showing daily drug dose

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03 August 2017

Congress fails to boost treatment for neglected diseases

Tags Intellectual property and tradeResearch and development neglected diseases access to medicinesFDA priority review voucherinnovation

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22 June 2017

MSF welcomes WHO’s decision to include snakebite on its Neglected Tropical Diseases list

Tags Tropical & neglected diseases neglected diseases

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07 June 2017

US Congressional Committee advances legislation that fails to fix FDA PRV program for neglected diseases

Tags Research and development neglected diseases access to medicinesFDA priority review voucherinnovation

Treatment of a Kala azar-HIV co-infected patient lasts for almost a month. The duration of long admission impacts the individual and their families, often taking them away from their livelihoods or necessitating a caretaker’s presence. Pictured here is a patient with her daughter in MSF’s Kala azar-HIV ward in Patna, Bihar.

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02 March 2017

US Lawmakers fail to fix flawed PRV program intended to promote new medicines for neglected diseases

Tags Research and development neglected diseases access to medicinesFDA priority review voucherinnovation United States of America

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20 December 2016

Bolivia: Doctors Without Borders ends Chagas operations, urges Ministry of Health to take over comprehensive care in rural areas

Tags Tropical & neglected diseases neglected diseases

n estimated five million people around the world are bitten by venomous snakes every year. One in ten will die or be left with permanent consequences.

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07 September 2015

Global health community slithers away from snakebite crisis as antivenom runs out

Tags Tropical & neglected diseases neglected diseases diagnostic tests World Health Organization Central African RepublicSouth Sudan

Since July 2007, MSF has been running a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Vaishali district, in the centre of the Indian state of Bihar.

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04 December 2014

Increased access to diagnosis and treatment of HIV-VL co-infection is imperative for eliminating kala azar

Tags HIV/AIDSTropical & neglected diseases co-infectionHIV/AIDSneglected diseases

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01 December 2014

Ebola To Be Added to List of Neglected Diseases Eligible for US government Research & Development Incentive

Tags Intellectual property and tradeTropical & neglected diseases Ebolaneglected diseases

Ubaldo Mendoza, 18, has initiated Chagas treatment in San Pedro Pochutlas health facility.

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01 October 2014

Chagas diagnosis and treatment a reality in Oaxaca state

Tags Tropical & neglected diseases neglected diseases Mexico

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24 October 2013

DNDi: deadly gaps persist in new drug development for neglected diseases

Tags Intellectual property and trade neglected diseases research and development (R&D) DNDi

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12 December 2012

Millions of Patients Still Waiting for Medical “Breakthroughs” Against Neglected Diseases

Tags HIV/AIDSIntellectual property and tradeResearch and developmentTropical & neglected diseasesTuberculosisVaccines neglected diseasessleeping sicknessvisceral leishmaniasis (kala azar) research and development (R&D)

Banuna is in the MSF hospital in Doro with her mother Arabiya. Banuna just woke up from a five day coma, due to Malaria. The doctors did not think she was going to make it, her waking up is a small miracle. Her mother Arabiya says she was afraid of seeing her like that, she says "it was like she was dead". Photograph by Olga Victoire

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06 December 2012

New diagnostics and treatment offer new hope for sleeping sickness but who will use them?

Tags Tropical & neglected diseases neglected diseasessleeping sickness diagnostic tests

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03 December 2012

MSF response to the launch of the G-FINDER report

Tags Intellectual property and tradeResearch and developmentTropical & neglected diseases neglected diseasessleeping sicknessvisceral leishmaniasis (kala azar) research and development (R&D) World Health Organization

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11 June 2012

Neglected Tropical Diseases: New MSF Report Highlights How to Break the Cycle of Neglect

Tags Intellectual property and tradeResearch and developmentTropical & neglected diseases sleeping sicknessvisceral leishmaniasis (kala azar)neglected diseases research and development (R&D)

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30 January 2012

Combating Neglected Tropical Diseases: What is Still Missing

Tags Intellectual property and tradeResearch and developmentTropical & neglected diseases neglected diseasessleeping sickness Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationUSAIDWorld Health Organization

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05 October 2011

Treatment Ends for Chagas Patients

Tags Intellectual property and tradeTropical & neglected diseases neglected diseases benznidazole Pan American Health OrganizationWorld Health Organization BrazilParaguay

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16 November 2004

MSF challenges Ministerial Summit on Health Research to ensure development of new medicines

Tags Research and developmentTropical & neglected diseases neglected diseases diagnostic testsMillennium Development Goals

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11 November 2004

DNDi: 'The gap is growing: More resources needed now for neglected diseases'

Tags Research and developmentTropical & neglected diseases neglected diseases

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Governments finally take important step to tackle global snakebite crisis

Chagas drug will be available in US

Congress fails to boost treatment for neglected diseases

MSF welcomes WHO’s decision to include snakebite on its Neglected Tropical Diseases list

US Congressional Committee advances legislation that fails to fix FDA PRV program for neglected diseases

US Lawmakers fail to fix flawed PRV program intended to promote new medicines for neglected diseases

Bolivia: Doctors Without Borders ends Chagas operations, urges Ministry of Health to take over comprehensive care in rural areas

Global health community slithers away from snakebite crisis as antivenom runs out

Increased access to diagnosis and treatment of HIV-VL co-infection is imperative for eliminating kala azar

Ebola To Be Added to List of Neglected Diseases Eligible for US government Research & Development Incentive

Chagas diagnosis and treatment a reality in Oaxaca state

DNDi: deadly gaps persist in new drug development for neglected diseases

Millions of Patients Still Waiting for Medical “Breakthroughs” Against Neglected Diseases

New diagnostics and treatment offer new hope for sleeping sickness but who will use them?

MSF response to the launch of the G-FINDER report

Neglected Tropical Diseases: New MSF Report Highlights How to Break the Cycle of Neglect

Combating Neglected Tropical Diseases: What is Still Missing

Treatment Ends for Chagas Patients

MSF challenges Ministerial Summit on Health Research to ensure development of new medicines

DNDi: 'The gap is growing: More resources needed now for neglected diseases'