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Estrella Lasry: Seasonal malaria chemoprevention—good news in a year marked by malaria emergencies
In 2012, MSF projects in several countries saw an important increase in cases of malaria, and a prolonged peak in areas of seasonal transmission. More than six emergency interventions were […]
Kate Elder and Jennifer Cohn: Vaccines in developing countries: why the high prices?
Global health leaders will gather in Abu Dhabi on 24 and 25 April for a vaccine summit to discuss recent accomplishments and seek ways to expand the impact of childhood […]
Damien Brown: Working for MSF in South Sudan
My second day in South Sudan, the start of a nine month posting with MSF in this war torn, dustbowl of a town called Nasir, and I’m standing here in […]
Charles Ssonko: Familiar enemies in conflict and tuberculosis
Amid the justified excitement surrounding the development of the first new drugs to treat tuberculosis (TB) in over 50 years it is worth remembering on World TB Day that in […]
Daniel O’Brien: Buruli ulcer in a brave new world
My recent visit to the Buruli ulcer ward run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Akonolinga Hospital, Cameroon, was both inspiring and disturbing. The care provided was state of the art, […]
Ian Woolley: Hepatitis E in South Sudan
Pestilence, along with war, famine, and death, is sometimes portrayed as one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse of the Bible’s Book of Revelations, which describes, amongst other things, […]
Julien Potet and Katy Athersuch: WHO brokered global research and development action plan shelved
Ten years backwards—this was the journey through time that representatives from governments around the world took last week when they gathered at the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss the […]
Grania Brigden: Children with TB—global interest at last
At last, tackling tuberculosis (TB) in children is on the international agenda. This year, for the first time, an estimate of the extent of TB in children was included in […]
Matthew Coldiron: Where the road ends—treating yaws in the Republic of Congo
We’re in Kpeta, a village of nearly 400 Aka pygmies in the Department of the Likouala in the northern Republic of Congo. Our team has driven five hours from the […]