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UNITAID gives Green Light on Patent Pool Read more

 

New WHO MDR TB tests..a cautious welcome Read more

G8: No new money to meet nutrition crisis Read more

Untangling the web of price reduction a pricing guide for the purchase of ARVs for developing countries. Full report

© Ann

Taking the Plunge: UNITAID endorses the patent pool concept, a move welcomed by MSF. This innovative mechanism could help the development of much needed new medicines at affordable prices Find out more 

© Remi Vallet

WHO new MDR TB tests - a cautious welcome from MSF to WHO and partner organisations' announcement of a new initiative to roll out new molecular MDR TB tests in 16 countries over the next 4 years Read more 

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Sheleme's Story Follow the story of Sheleme, a little girl suffering from severe acute malnutrition and oedema, currently being treated in one of MSF's feeding centres in Ethiopia. Read more

© Brendon Bannon

Meet Monica Juma. She lives in Mathare, an impoverished community near Nairobi. She is co-infected with HIV and drug-resistant tuberculosis. Monica has to take care of her family while under treatment so she needs to come to the MSF clinic twice a day, everyday. Click here for slideshow

Stimulating the Debate on Malnutrition

© Michael Goldfarb

MSF took its malnutrition campaign to a meeting of key actors in the nutritional community held in Vietnam earlier this year.

Read more about MSF's activities at the Standing Committee on Nutrition

Read about MSF's malnutrition campaign

Fighting for better drugs

© Cecile Duvivier

Dr  Johan van Grievsen, an HIV doctor in Rwanda with MSF until the end of 2007, describes the severe side effects of some antiretrovirals drugs and why patients need access to a better drug - tenofovir - but at an affordable price Click here for interview

 

  

Patent battles in India

© Sheila Shettle

Pressure on patents is hotting up as one ARV patent is rejected in India and two more oppositions to AIDS medicines patents are filed by civil society groups.  Read more

 

 

Give us the tools we need

© Juan Carlos Tomasi

From an effective diagnostic test for TB, to drugs that work against Chagas disease and HIV treatments for children and pregnant women - none of these are available to our teams in the field because of the failure of the current system of medical R&D.

Read more about the medical challenges we face and some solutions that could deliver the medical tools we need to treat our patients.