Category: Readers’ letters

Drug-resistant tuberculosis continues to cause havoc in Afghanistan

MONITORING (SW) – In recent years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been able to improve patients’ experiences of care for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), but the changing political situation threatens to derail this progress, writes Anita Mesic, MSF tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and hepatitis adviser. 

Spread smiles, make everyone happy!

Afghans have experienced decades of war and bloodshed causing great psychological damage, but for many, laughing can be the only way to forget these pains and keep their mental state balanced.