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In the spirit of International Nurses Day, it is crucial to reflect on the invaluable contributions of nurses to healthcare as well as their pivotal role in shaping the future of care. This year’s theme, ‘Our Nurses. Our Future. The  Economic Power of Care,’ highlights the significant impact that nurses have on the health and the economic stability of communities worldwide. To commemorate International Nurses Day 2024, we spoke to Thabisile Gumede, a dedicated Research Nurse at THINK’s Clinical Trial Unit in Hillcrest, South Africa. Through this interview, we explore the journey and experiences that illustrate the profound influence nurses have in [...]

Findings that prompted WHO to update global DR-TB treatment guidelines now published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that a much shorter treatment regimen for drug-resistant TB is safer and cured almost 90 percent of patients London, 21 December 2022—A new all-oral, six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) than the current options for people with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), according to the results of a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) study published in the New England Journal of Medicine today. These findings are a result of MSF’s TB-PRACTECAL, the first-ever multi-country, randomized, [...]