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"Fighting Tuberculosis with Open-Source Tech"

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is working with partners on an ambitious global project to find less toxic and more effective treatments for tuberculosis: endTB. The clinical trial involves treating patients and tracking data across 15 countries. But how do you bring advanced data systems to field hospitals without internet access or IT staff?

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How do you bring advanced data systems to field hospitals without internet or IT staff? That’s the challenge Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) faced in implementing the tools for a new clinical trial called endTB, which is testing the first new tuberculosis drugs developed in almost 50 years. The endTB project covers 15 countries and is designed to find shorter, less toxic, and more effective treatments for patients with multi-drug resistant forms of TB. To join this collaboration, teams must be equipped to capture rich patient data and share it securely with international colleagues. In this interview, MSF project manager Safiya Arnaout describes her experience integrating a high-tech solution into low-tech hospital settings, empowering medical teams to use data in innovative ways.