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Name : Designation : Which is the most resilient? A bacteria? A virus? It’s an idea! Both tough and highly contagious, an idea, in my experience, is almost impossible to root out once it takes hold. © Devi Prasad Mohapatra It was an idea that led to the creation of MSF in 1971 and it … Read more
Name : Forty-eight-year-old Linda Vilakati is one of 55 patients who have just successfully completed treatment for MDR-TB in Swaziland. Swaziland 2013 © Zanele Zwane/MSF Designation : “I feel like jumping and dancing and shouting,” says Linda Vilakati. “It has been a long and difficult journey, but I’ve reached the end.” Forty-eight-year-old Linda Vilakati is … Read more
Name : Designation : Visceral leishmaniasis is known worldwide as kala azar. Since 2007 MSF is implementing a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Bihar state, northern India. India 2011 © Anna Surinyach / MSF It is 10 in the morning and several people are already waiting at the lab doors to be tested … Read more
MSF teams in Mauritania are scaling up their medical activities in Mbéra camp to help the 75,000 Malian people who are stranded in the desert. MSF has been working in the camp since February 2012 and while the emergency phase of the response is coming to an end, significant needs remain. The following is an … Read more
Syrian doctor Jamal describes working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a converted school that now serves as an outpatient clinic. As the conflict in Syria wears on and people are forced to live in increasingly difficult conditions. Without adequate access to health care, health problems like diabetes, hypertension, and mental health conditions … Read more
As the number of people in need of urgent medical care in Syria continues to rise, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is running six hospitals, four health centers, and several mobile clinic programs inside the country. While these medical programs are undoubtedly saving dozens of lives every day, the extremely high levels of insecurity … Read more
Barcelona, Madrid, July 19, 2013 – Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, the two aid workers for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released yesterday in Somalia after 21 months in captivity, will arrive today at the Spanish air-base of Torrejón (Madrid) from Djibouti. The organisation is extremely relieved to confirm the release of the two … Read more
KUALA LUMPUR/NEW YORK, JULY 15, 2013—As negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement move to Malaysia this week, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges negotiating countries to remove terms that could block people from accessing affordable medicines, choke off production of generic medicines, and constrain the ability of governments to pass laws in the … Read more
NEW YORK, JULY 8, 2013—More than 20,000 people are largely cut off from aid in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state after fleeing violence in the disputed border region with Sudan’s South Darfur state, the international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. The displaced people are mainly living in 11 … Read more
BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/NEW YORK, July 9, 2013—Three months after a coup in Central African Republic (CAR), the country remains gripped by a humanitarian emergency made worse as the international community looks on with indifference, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned in a report released today. CAR, plunged into … Read more