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South Africa: More MSF patients with DR-TB gain access to dramatically cheaper version of life-saving drug (post with simple image)
Patients & MSF doctors elated as MCC approval for Médecins Sans Frontières to use generic linezolid paves the way for national registration and access.
For patients waiting for XDR-TB treatment in Romania, someday never comes (post with simple image)
For Romanians with XDR-TB, except for the lucky few who get on a bus or a plane and become medical refugees, throwing themselves at the mercy of other European countries, someday never comes.
Trans-Pacific trade partners must stand against higher medicine prices and take harmful provisions off the negotiating table (post with simple image)
MSF warns that higher medicine prices caused by harmful new rules in the TPP trade pact will disproportionally affect the poorest populations across all countries in the pact: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam.
Meet the 23-year-old TB survivor taking on South Africa's patent laws (post with simple image)
My name is Phumeza Tisile, I am 23-years-old and live in Cape Town. In 2010, I was diagnosed with tuberculosis and was forced to stop my studies at Cape Peninsula University of Technology to go for treatment. Despite this my condition did not improve, and after about five months of treatment, first for "normal" TB and then for multi-drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), I was finally diagnosed with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB), the deadliest form of the disease.
Voices in the fight: Shamsiya (post with simple image)
This post is comes from our partners in Tajikistan and tells the story of Shamsiya and her family experience with TB. This story was written by our partners in Tajikistan, Safar and Abdusamd.
Pharma companies in Ukraine raised their prices for medical products by up to 300% (post with simple image)
Patient and anticorruption organizations call on pharma companies not to sell medical products to Ukraine at the price of gold and decrease the prices instead to the level of the year 2013.
TB epidemic threat hangs over Ukraine conflict (post with simple image)
Ukraine has one of the worst TB problems in Europe, second only to Russia in terms of infection numbers. It is one of 27 high MDR-TB burden countries in the world.
South Africa: Drug-resistant TB patients lost in the system (post with simple image)
Mpumalanga patients with drug-resistant TB say health workers at specialist TB hospitals in Standerton and Barberton keep them in the dark about their diagnosis and treatment.
MSF letter to Indian government - IP negotiations in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (post with simple image)
Ahead of the RCEP Ministerial Conference to be held in Myanmar on 27-28 August 2014, see letter from Medecins Sans Frontieres addressed to the Indian Minister of State for Commerce & Industry regarding the inclusion of intellectual property (IP) in the negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and its potential impact on access to affordable generic medicines from India.
Open letter to Janssen: Reducing the price of bedaquiline (post with simple image)
Several organizations and individuals working on TB appeal to Janssen to lower bedaquiline's price for all non-high-income countries.
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