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Children living with TB are a vulnerable and neglected group. In 2022, an estimated 1.25 million children and young adolescents fell ill with tuberculosis (TB), and more than 200,000 children died – that’s 1 death every 3 minutes.

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24 January 2024

Diagnosing Paediatric TB: Challenges and Needs

We desperately need more research and development for TB diagnostics that are specifically designed for children

Tags Tuberculosis tuberculosis

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22 September 2023

Tuberculosis: Challenges and Breakthroughs

Despite being curable, why is TB the world’s deadliest infectious disease? What tools do we have to beat the disease?

Tags Tuberculosis drug-resistant TBtuberculosis

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12 September 2023

Factsheet: “Time for $5” Campaign

The “Time for $5” campaign calls on Cepheid and its parent corporation, Danaher, to prioritise people over profits and reduce the price of GeneXpert tests to $5

Tags Diagnostics tuberculosis GeneXpert Cepheid Time for $5

Covid-19 Vaccine Equitable Access - Public Good

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26 April 2021

COVID-19 vaccines: Recommendations for equitable access

Governments and philanthropies have contributed billions to the research and development of COVID-19 vaccines, heads of state spoke about making the vaccines “global public goods”, and the COVAX Facility was launched to deliver COVID ...

Tags COVID-19 coronavirus covid medical tools access

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05 October 2020

Patent Oppositions Database

The Patent Opposition Database is a project of the Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign. It provides support and resources for those wanting to challenge patents on medicines. It was created under a UNITAID grant in support of the endTB project.

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22 June 2020

COVID-19 vaccine: 6 recommendations for equitable access

Heads of state have talked about making future COVID-19 vaccines ‘global public goods’. But what does that mean in practice?

Tags COVID-19 coronavirus Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance covid medical tools access

Hospital instalado por Medicos Sin Fronteras para tratar enfermos de coronavirus en Leganes.

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07 May 2020

COVID-19: Crisis update

COVID-19 is a disease caused by a contagious new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and everyone is at risk of being infected. Health workers are on the frontline of the response to the pandemic and their protection is vital to ensure that ...

Tags COVID-19 coronavirus

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15 February 2020

How Big Pharma is making people pay twice for many of the medicines they buy

Let’s try to explain all the ways that pharma is… double-dipping in taxpayers’ pockets for the medicines they sell us.

Tags Research and development

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15 February 2020

Access to affordable medicines is a growing global challenge: Europe is no exception

Tags Intellectual property and tradeResearch and development

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30 September 2018

Fact sheet: UN High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis

TB is the world’s leading infectious disease killer. Poor political commitment and underfunding of TB research and development (R&D) are fuelling this global health emergency.

Tags Tuberculosis drug-resistant TBtuberculosis

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22 August 2018

Fact Sheet: Ending the neglect of snakebite

Every year, an estimated 2.7 million people are bitten by venomous snakes, resulting in death for more than 100,000 people and life-long disfigurement and disability for 400,000 more.

Tags Tropical & neglected diseases snakebite World Health AssemblyWorld Health Organization