Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College (VMMC) & Safdarjung Hospital (SJH) and The Indian Public Health Association-Delhi State Branch in collaboration with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) India is organising a two day event ‘Medical Humanitarianism: The MSF experience’ for future and current medical practitioners on July 30th and 31st, 2014 at VMMC. The event will … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) welcomes the announcement by the Union Government of Myanmar and the Rakhine State Government that MSF will be allowed to resume operations in Rakhine State, after it was forced to halt medical activities in February. “MSF is cautiously optimistic about this development,” said Marcel Langenbach, Director of Operations for … Read more
Medical Workers Also Coming Under Fire Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, the majority of the dead and wounded in Gaza are civilians and medical workers are also coming under fire, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Women and children comprised most of … Read more
Following the successful completion of a four year partnership with the Department of Health and Family Welfare (DoH&FW) to support Mon District Hospital, Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) is calling on local authorities and communities to continue good management and patient care at the hospital. MSF officially departs from the hospital on 20 July, … Read more
MSF reinforcement team denied permission by Sudan authorities to respond to the needs 02 July 2014 / Brussels – Extremely poor living conditions are putting at risk some 15,000 displaced victims of conflict in El Sereif camp in Sudan’s South Darfur state. The most recent 4,500 arrivals in the camp, in particular, have scarcely enough … Read more
Patients & MSF doctors elated as MCC approval for MSF to use generic linezolid paves the way for national registration and access. JOHANNESBURG, June 30 — After a three-year long struggle, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has received approval from the South African Medicines Control Council (MCC) to import a dramatically more affordable version … Read more
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN: Violence in hospitals and the destruction of medical facilities are denying medical services to many of South Sudan’s most vulnerable people, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today in a report, South Sudan Conflict: Violence Against Healthcare. Since armed conflict erupted in South Sudan in December, at least 58 people have … Read more
All parties to the conflict in Iraq must spare civilians and health structures Geneva, 18 June 2014 — Following severe damage of its clinic in Tikrit as a result of the shellingof the city on 13 June, preventing the provision of medical care to approximately 40,000 people displaced by the recent surge in conflict in … Read more
Amidst Bombing of South Kordofan Village, MSF Facility Attacked NEW YORK/PARIS, JUNE 17, 2014 – During an aerial attack on a Sudanese village, Sudan’s air force bombed and partially destroyed a hospital run by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the war-torn South Kordofan region Monday, depriving civilians of … Read more
Six out of the 11 rapid diagnostic tests available in the market are highly reliable, making the lab dispensable Barcelona, 10 June, 2014. – For the first time since Chagas disease was discovered 105 years ago, an independent study shows that various rapid diagnostic tests available in the market are highly reliable. This is a … Read more