Dr. Tim Jagatic of Médecins Sans Frontières spent March and April in Guinea when the Ebola outbreak was first recognized — and returned to West Africa to fight the disease in July. “When I went to West Africa the second time, people might have thought: 1) I’m masochistic and don’t have any sense of self-preservation, …
MSF doctor feels safe working in field fighting Ebola Read More »
Ebola experts at the ASTMH conference in New Orleans concerned about the effect of Ebola on the health systems in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone — as the Ebola response has drawn physicians and nurses away from the normal care system. “A lot of the health infrastructure has collapsed in these countries. For instance, maternal …
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“The number of things that need to go right for an outbreak to be controlled is significant — a lot of working pieces are interdependent,” said Dr Armand Sprecher of Médecins Sans Frontières at the 63rd Annual American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Conference this November in New Orleans. The health promoters and the …
Operational aspects of the response: MSF in West Africa Read More »
Tuberculosis (TB) is largely under control in the industrialised countries of the ‘Global North’, which means that most of the effort to eliminate TB will fall on the shoulders of those emerging middle-income countries where TB is still an epidemic. HOW CAN BRICS PROMOTE RESEARCH TO END TB? In January this year (2013), the health …
The critical role of the emerging middle-income countries in eliminating TB Read More »
Changing the perspective of research to end TB: a global venture “Suboptimal tools to detect, treat or prevent TB necessitate development of new tools,” said Professor Gilla Kaplan, speaking at the Stop TB Symposium, that was held on October 30, 2013, a day before the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health. Prof Kaplan is …
While the previous presenters at the Stop TB Symposium, held on October 30, 2013, just before the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Paris, focused on the new Global Strategy — and the new target of TB elimination by 2035 (see recent posts) — Dr Christian Leinhardt of WHO’s Global TB Programme set …
The following is a transcript of a presentation made by Jigna Rao, who is a person who had TB and who still deals with its consequences, at the Cascades: Improving TB Care Symposium, organised by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, Médecins Sans Frontières, Partners In Health, the …
MSF Responds to EMA approval of new tuberculosis drug delamanid Background: On November 22, 2013, the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation for delamanid, only the second new TB drug to be developed in 50 years. It is hoped that the new drug, …
European Approval of Delanamid, a new drug to fight TB: MSF & TAG’s responses Read More »
We tried to raise funding to attend ICASA, but could not find support to attend the meeting. Therefore, we won’t be reporting any news from this meeting. What follows if my original fundraising request. Background: I realise it is very very late in the game, but I would like to find support to cover the …
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A major shift in the global anti-tuberculosis (TB) strategy was announced at the Stop TB Symposium just prior to the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health this month in Paris. Instead of setting modest targets for incremental improvements in TB control, which has been the norm for the past few decades, the TB community …
New Anti-TB Strategy Target: Elimination of the Disease Read More »