E-drug: World TB Day 2003
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New Treatments Needed to Fight Disease that Kills Every 15
Seconds. One-third of the world's population is infected with
tuberculosis (TB), the number one killer of people with HIV/AIDS.
Drugs currently used to treat TB are 30 to 50 years old and only 27
percent of the world's TB patients have access to existing
treatment. On the occasion of World TB Day, March 24, Doctors
Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) joined a
teleconference hosted by the Global Alliance for TB Drug
Development to discuss the urgent need for new TB medicines,
diagnostics, and vaccines.
Read the transcript at:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/other/tb_teleco
nference_3-19-2003.shtml
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Rachel M. Cohen
U.S. Director, Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
Doctors Without Borders/M�decins Sans Fronti�res (MSF)
6 East 39th Street, 8th Floor * New York, NY * 10016 * USA
Tel: +1-212-655-3762
Mobile: +1-917-331-9077
Fax: +1-212-679-7016
E-mail: rachel.cohen@newyork.msf.org
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
http://www.accessmed-msf.org/
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Please visit http://www.msf.org/arjan/petition/usa.htm and sign
MSF's petition calling for the release of our colleague Arjan Erkel
who was kidnapped more than six months ago in Dagestan, a
republic of the Russian Federation. Thank you!
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