© MSF Sana’a/Paris, March 31, 2015 – More medical supplies and trained health personnel are urgently needed in Yemen as the violence there escalates, but bringing in this essential support is currently impossible, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday. Clashes across the country in recent weeks, in addition to airstrikes which began on … Read more
Camp for displaced people in Al Mazraq, northwestern Yemen, in 2013. © Anna Surinyach More than two dozen people injured in an airstrike yesterday at a displaced persons camp in northern Yemen have been treated by the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the organisation announced. The bombardment this morning hit … Read more
MSF releases a critical analysis of the global Ebola response one year into the deadliest outbreak in history BRUSSELS, 23 MARCH 2015 – The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today releases a critical analysis of the Ebola epidemic in west Africa over the past year, revealing the shortcomings of the global response … Read more
Cases of cholera have been recorded in Mozambique since last December, but the epidemic has quickly expanded in the month of February, infecting about 3.500 people and killing 37. In the westernmost Tete province, currently the hotspot of the epidemic, the situation is worrying. Ruggero Giuliani, MSF’s medical coordinator in Mozambique, explains What … Read more
Since December 2014, an estimated 20,000 Central Africans have fled over the River Ubangi to into the Bili and Bosobolo health zones in Equateur Province, northern DRC, adding to 10,000 refugees already present in the area. The refugees have arrived with very few possessions, if any, and are heavily dependent on the local community. Available … Read more
Patna/ Darbhanga, March 1, 2015: Over 300 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) have been successfully treated at the 30-bed specialised Malnutrition Intensive Care Unit (MICU) in Darbhanga Medical College Hospital (DMCH).The medical facility, which was established a year ago on March 1, 2014 by the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins … Read more
Creating awareness is a key component of the response to an Ebola epidemic. It is impossible to eradicate the disease without the population’s support and changes in people’s behavior. In Guinea, dozens of MSF health promoters have been crisscrossing the affected regions to talk about the disease and how it is transmitted, encourage people with … Read more
Initial results of a clinical trial of the experimental drug favipiravir suggest that it can reduce mortality among patients with low levels of the Ebola virus in their blood, but is ineffective for patients with high viral loads who are very sick with the disease. The ongoing clinical trial, led by French research institute INSERM, … Read more
NB. Testimony taken Friday 13 February 2015 Alyona, 24, is from Debaltseve, a heavily contested city on the frontline of the Ukrainian conflict. When fighting intensified in January, Alyona, her husband and two-year old son Gleb, stayed in the basement, but eventually the situation became unbearable and they fled the city on 29 January. They are … Read more
Barcelona, 19 February-. The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières urged all parties to the conflict to facilitate the evacuation of the wounded people due to the fierce clashes in the recent days in Aleppo, a city in northern Syria where the population has been trapped by fighting and aerial bombardments for months.A new wave … Read more