Daniel O’Brien reflects on the challenges of treating cryptococcal meningitis in developing countries. Being a doctor in the era of bringing antiretroviral…
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General Cryptococcal Meningitis: A Major Killer in HIV/AIDS Programmes in Resource-Poor Settings
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MSF Emergency epidemiology-what does this mean?
‘Mortality rates in a refugee camp in South Sudan are nearly double the threshold for an emergency, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has…
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HIV Do No Harm: How a US-Led Free Trade Agreement Threatens the Prospects for an AIDS-Free Generation
The theme of the 19th International AIDS Conference that took place in Washington, DC a few days ago was ‘Turning the Tide…
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MSF Going Digital: Join in the Online Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Scientific Day
Why does a medical humanitarian organisation like Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), hold a yearly scientific conference? The public image of MSF sometimes…
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MSF Responding to Malaria: A View from the Ground
Today we recognize World Malaria Day, a day that for me is filled with contradictions. There are many reasons to feel encouraged…
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MSF Time to make TB the enemy that can’t hide
As the Kony 2012 campaign continues to sear the image of Joseph Kony into the world’s consciousness, it’s worth remembering that there…
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MSF A Spotlight on Children With TB
This World TB Day there is an emphasis on children, which is long overdue. Until now, children have largely been excluded from…
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General Zero MDR-TB deaths in children in my lifetime?
Global aspirations I like this year’s STOP TB partnership World TB Day campaign approach. It is ambitious, but I, for one, have…
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General Geeks and primitive fieldworkers: a tale of two cultures
As a project manager for MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders), a medical emergency humanitarian agency, I attended this year’s South by…
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Mental Health What is a traumatic experience if you live in Mogadishu?
The woman in front of me in the clinic looked worried. Her child, a small creature, was struggling to resist efforts to…
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MSF The Tomorrow of Neglected Tropical Diseases
Guest blogger Dr Rachel ter Horst, medical advocacy advisor at Médecins Sans Frontière, discusses the recent Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases…
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General False positive HIV tests: the problem no one wants to talk about (and how to solve it)
Guest post by Leslie Shanks of MSF, the second of three guest posts from the 2011 ICASA conference in Addis Ababa. The…