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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General Geeks and primitive fieldworkers: a tale of two cultures
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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…
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General MSF: initial outcomes of combination treatment for HIV and visceral leishmaniasis co-infection
Guest post by Rachel ter Horst, the third of three guest posts from the 2011 ICASA conference in Addis Ababa. The International…
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General Africa AIDS Conference: Donor Retreat and its Consequences for Patients and Communities
Guest post by Mit Philips of MSF, the first of three guest posts from the 2011 ICASA conference in Addis Ababa. The…
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Conference news A rollercoaster of emotions at Union World Lung Health conference
Guest post by Bern-Thomas Nyang’wa, a Malawian public health doctor working as a TB Implementer for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Bern provides…
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Conference news Being bold on a budget at Lille
Guest post by Beverly Collin, Programmes Advisor Health Policy and Practice at MSF UK After the initial orientation to the vast Union…
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Conference news Paediatric tuberculosis: out of the dark
Guest post by Grania Brigden, the TB advisor to the MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. For too long, children with…
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Conference news Mobile treatment teams and new drugs: the fight against sleeping sickness
Bamako, Mali. Leopard-print chairs, a rather dark conference room filled mainly with African men dressed in either dark suits or colourful long…
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MSF Capreomycin shortage: symptom of a bigger problem in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Guest post by Grania Brigden. Grania is the TB advisor to the MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. There is currently…
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General TB & Me: The personal experiences of patients living with MDR-TB
Guest post by Dr. Philipp du Cros, Head of the Manson Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders), London, UK. What…