Posted on 10 April, 2012
DRC: An Alarming Surge in Malaria
MSF has recorded a three-fold increase in patients with malaria in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since 2009. MSF teams are seeing alarming numbers of malaria patients this year as well, and have launched an emergency response.
She continued to cough and lose weight despite the treatment and in April 2011, with further molecular tests, a confirmed diagnosis of Drug-Resistant TB was made. She is one of the lucky ones as she lives in the region where the government can treat her for drug-resistant TB.
Kartik, an MSF tuberculosis doctor heads to the mountains of Tajikistan to meet the family of 2 young patients ready for discharge.