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    Philippines: How artificial intelligence improves tuberculosis detection in Tondo
    Philippines
    Philippines: How artificial intelligence improves tuberculosis detection in Tondo
    Tondo, a densely populated slum in Manila, Philippines, is grappling with a high prevalence of tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious dis...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Philippines: In Manila, children can be free of tuberculosis within four months
    Philippines
    Philippines: In Manila, children can be free of tuberculosis within four months
    Manila, Philippines -- Within four months, a child can complete a course of treatment for tuberculosis (TB), and be considered cured.
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Supertyphoon Man-yi hits the Philippines: “It’s like the storm took an axe to the trees”
    Philippines
    Supertyphoon Man-yi hits the Philippines: “It’s like the storm took an axe to the trees”
    Rooftops have been ripped from houses and community centers. Segments of metal sheeting are wrapped around trees that are now empty of leaves and bran...
    Natural disasters
    Tuberculosis: Doctors Without Borders launches unprecedented project to tackle underdiagnosis among children
    India
    Tuberculosis: Doctors Without Borders launches unprecedented project to tackle underdiagnosis among children
    Tuberculosis (TB) in children is a silent scourge: one child dies of tuberculosis every three minutes and more than half of all children with TB are n...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Access to medicines
    World TB Day 2023: Catching up with tuberculosis in the Philippines
    Philippines
    World TB Day 2023: Catching up with tuberculosis in the Philippines
    Working closely with the Manila Health Department, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international humanitarian organizatio...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Infectious diseases
    The Philippines: Facing the impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis in the slums of Manila
    Philippines
    The Philippines: Facing the impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis in the slums of Manila
    While COVID-19 raised awareness of the risks of airborne disease in the general population, vulnerable populations - such as the urban poor - were exp...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Infectious diseases
    The Philippines: Five years of medical care for Marawi siege survivors
    Philippines
    The Philippines: Five years of medical care for Marawi siege survivors
    It has been five years since the siege of Marawi displaced 98 per cent of the population of the southern Philippines city. Since the conflict, Doctors...
    War and conflict
    Non-communicable diseases
    Mental health
    Doctors Without Borders and Manila Health Department inaugurate mobile X-RAY van for Tondo tuberculosis project
    Philippines
    Doctors Without Borders and Manila Health Department inaugurate mobile X-RAY van for Tondo tuberculosis project
    At the World Tuberculosis Day ribbon-cutting ceremony in Tondo Foreshore Health Centre, Doctors Without Borders also signed a GeneXpert MTB/XDR cooper...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    The Philippines: Doctors Without Borders launches intervention on islands affected by Typhoon Rai
    Philippines
    The Philippines: Doctors Without Borders launches intervention on islands affected by Typhoon Rai
    Manila 17 January, 2022 – Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams will start providing medical and humanitarian assis...
    Natural disasters