In the second post in celebration of the 10th Anniversaries of PLOS and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), PLOS Medicine…
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MSF PLOS & DNDi launch a new Collection celebrating a Decade of Open Access and NTD R&D
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General TB Patients Take the Stage: Now for an R&D Model That Meets Their Needs
Grania Brigden, TB advisor to the MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, describes how the current drug R&D model is failing…
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General TB Patients Take the Stage: Now for an R&D Model That Meets Their Needs
Grania Brigden, TB advisor to the MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, describes how the current drug R&D model is failing…
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MSF The Limits of Humanitarian Aid: MSF and TB in Somalia
Unni Karunakara and Jean-Christophe Dollé describe the challenges faced by Médecins Sans Frontières’ TB programme as the organisation withdrew from Somalia in…
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General How Access to Life-Saving Antisera is Dwindling Fast, and What to do About it
Julien Potet from MSF describes the underlying causes limiting access to antisera in low- and middle-income countries. What do snakebites, tetanus and rabies…
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MSF To Err is Humanitarian
Leslie Shanks describes the challenging task of implementing error reporting within Médecins sans Frontières’ programmes. I remember that day as if it…
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Conference news MSF Scientific Day 2013
Does blogging help patients cope with the lengthy and toxic treatment for multidrug resistant tuberculosis? Do humanitarian responses to crises fail to…
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General Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention: Good News in a Year Marked by Malaria Emergencies
Estrella Lasry from Médecins Sans Frontières reflects on the roll out of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Mali and Chad. In 2012, MSF…
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MSF Vaccines in Developing Countries: Why the High Prices?
Kate Elder and Jennifer Cohn from Médecins Sans Frontières question why new vaccines are so expensive. Global health leaders will gather in…
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MSF Familiar Enemies in Conflict and TB
Charles Ssonko from Médecins Sans Frontières reflects on the challenges of treating TB in unstable settings. Amid the justified excitement surrounding the…
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General Buruli Ulcer in a Brave New World
Daniel O’Brien from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders describes his recent visit to Cameroon and calls for research and action to tackle…
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General The Horseman, the Donkey and the Virus: Hepatitis E in South Sudan
Médecins Sans Frontières’ Ian Woolley reports on the current hepatitis E outbreak in the refugee camps of South Sudan. Pestilence, along with…