Lipi Upadhyay 
Help us stop the profiteering on medical tests Sign the petition to demand drug manufacturers Cepheid and Danaher drop the price of GeneXpert tests for low- and middle-income countries. MSF and partners protest outside Danaher in Washington, DC, demanding price drop to $5 per test Ahead of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, the international medical humanitarian … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expresses profound concern over the alarming rise in malnutrition cases among mothers in Yemen over the past two years. The situation reflects the dire humanitarian crisis facing the country, exacerbated by protracted conflict, economic instability, and diminished access to essential services. The story of Mayasa, a mother grappling with the relentless … Read more
Des Moines, Iowa – In Iowa, a decade ago on March 23rd 2014, Guinea declared an Ebola outbreak that was as devastating as it was unexpected and which signified the beginning of a crisis that would rock the world. Dr Michel Van Herp, an eminent Ebola expert revisits this historical event bringing to light five … Read more
Rome, 19 March 2024 – Over the weekend of March 16-17, the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders’s (MSF) team on board the rescue vessel Geo Barents witnessed two violent incidents involving the European Union (EU) funded Libyan Coast Guard that deliberately endangered the lives of hundreds of people seeking safety. MSF calls on the EU … Read more
Jerusalem, 18 March 2024 – As Israeli Forces announced on 18 March that they were conducting a military operation inside and around Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza, MSF staff sheltering close by said heavy fighting was taking place. One of our staff members said he heard drones, tanks and shelling near the hospital … Read more
Ahmad, 11, from Tatlay Aali, a town in Gujranwala district, Pakistan, was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) when he was just five years old. “We’d never heard about this disease, nobody from our family ever had it. At the same time, it was very concerning especially when the doctor asked my son to wear a mask … Read more
Islamabad: On World Tuberculosis Day, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) encourages medical service providers and practitioners in Pakistan to enhance drug resistant tuberculosis (DRTB) diagnosis by increasing the use of GeneXpert diagnostic testing among suspect tuberculosis (TB) cases. Additionally, patients who do not show improvement with initial TB treatment need to be urgently referred … Read more
Tuberculosis (TB) in children is a silent scourge: one child dies of TB every three minutes and more than half of all children with TB are never diagnosed. Taking the opportunity of a set of new recommendations by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a worldwide project aiming to increase … Read more
The humanitarian organization warns it is urgent to resume medical activities as soon as possible to guarantee access to health, especially for those who are victims of attacks and sexual violence in the jungle. Bogotá / Panama City: Since Monday, March 4th, the medical-humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to suspend all … Read more
Geneva/Delhi, 12 March 2024: On 10 March 2024, it was announced that India and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) signed a free trade agreement (FTA) they have been negotiating since 2006. Full text of agreement along with Annex and the Record of Understanding has been published by EFTA. Based on MSF’s analysis, while some provisions that undermined … Read more