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Lives lost: None of them had to die

From the January 28 edition of the Boston Globe, this section launches a yearlong effort by the Globe that will feature stories on world health challenges and the solutions that are within reach.

MSF is featured in two stories:

Cambodia

Five years after the end of a civil war, the greatest threats are children's restless coughs, villages without clean water, and malnutrition among expectant mothers.

Russia

 As post-Soviet Russia struggles to rebuild its health care system, tuberculosis infections have more than tripled, and a drug-resistant strain of the disease is flourishing.