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Tuberculosis

MDR-TB in the former Soviet Union

For the past two years, Maryline Bonnet, MSF regional TB advisor for Former Soviet Countries, has been working on TB projects in Kazakhstan, Southern Caucasus, Siberia and the Aral Sea Area. In an interview with Ingrid Cox, she discusses the problem faced with diagnosing multi-drug resistant TB there. Project Update - 24 Mar 2002
 
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Russia

TB in prisons: Containing a catastrophe

In Russia, a 16-year-old teenager arrested for getting into a fight can end up making light switches for over a year in a juvenile 'colony' (labor camp for prisoners). Project Update - 24 Mar 2002
 
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Russia

TB in civil society: Facing a rising epidemic

Last November, MSF, working jointly with many other partners, extended its anti-TB program to Kemerovo's civil society. Project Update - 24 Mar 2002
 
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Neglected diseases

Public sector must develop drugs for neglected diseases

MSF presented its recent study of neglected diseases, which it defines as those for which there is a lack of affordable, effective, easy to use medicines. Project Update - 23 Mar 2002
 
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HIV/AIDS

MSF comments on first WHO quality standards list

MSF welcomes the initiative by WHO - supported by Unicef and UNAIDS - to prequalify HIV/AIDS drugs and strongly recommends that the WHO list be used in connection with price and patent information which is available e.g. from WHO, Unicef, MSF, and others. Project Update - 22 Mar 2002
 
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HIV/AIDS

Generic AIDS drugs on UN list

Inclusion of products is setback for pharmaceutical giants.
This article first appeared in the International Herald Tribune
Project Update - 21 Mar 2002
 
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Colombia

Over 10,000 people vaccinated against measles by MSF in Santa Marta district

Preoccupation due to lack of amodiaquine for malaria epidemic in Narino Department. Press Release - 20 Mar 2002
 
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Neglected diseases

The Plagues of Poverty

MSF is running a pilot project to develop new drugs for sleeping sickness, chloroquine-resistant malaria and a parasite infection called leishmaniasis. Project Update - 19 Mar 2002
 
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Humanitarian challenges

Swiss S.O.S. campaign wins at 2001 Cannes Awards

MSF's 'S.O.S' ad campaign, developed for the Swiss office of MSF, won the Golden Lion award at the Cannes International Advertising Festival in 2001 in the category of TV commercials. Project Update - 15 Mar 2002
 
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Colombia

MSF starts measles vaccination campaign in Colombia

This week, MSF started a three-week measles vaccination campaign in the coastal mountain range in the Magdalena department, east of the city Santa Marta. Project Update - 15 Mar 2002
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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