An already fragile humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has deteriorated further after the border city of Goma fell to M23 rebels last week with hundreds of people injured and thousands displaced from their homes. Teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have rapidly set up additional emergency response activities, treating victims of … Read more
London, 19 November 2012 — New research from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) projects in Kabezi, Burundi, and Bo, Sierra Leone, indicates that it is possible to achieve a rapid and substantial decrease in maternal deaths of up to 74 per cent by providing access to emergency obstetric care. MSF’s research is the first of its … Read more
Standard TB Test Failing to Detect the Disease in Children 93 Percent of the Time GENEVA/KUALA LUMPUR/NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 15, 2012-Data from the largest-ever multinational cohort of children infected with both tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, definitively shows that there … Read more
MSF Calls on Nigerian Government and President to Immediately Release Earmarked Funds for Critical Environmental Remediation of Entire Village ABUJA, NIGERIA, NOVEMBER 15, 2012-The Nigerian government has failed to promptly release funds needed to remove lead from homes in a northern area of Nigeria, worsening a health crisis in which hundreds of children have fallen … Read more
Geneva/Kuala Lumpur, 13 November 2012 – Results from the largest multi-country implementation of the new rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic test reveal an urgent need to address the growing global crisis of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), according to the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The data, presented at the 43rd annual Union World Conference … Read more
After severe floods hit eastern Nigeria in September, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided medical assistance and distributed aid kits to populations in need. Hundreds of villages were destroyed and thousands of people were affected by the floods, which occurred after heavy rainfall caused the Benue River to rise above its banks. The situation was worsened … Read more
After two grueling years of treatment, Mary Marizani is MSF’s first patient in Zimbabwe to beat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). While this is great news, there is still an urgent need for better treatment that cures people in less time and with fewer side effects. In her home on the outskirts of Zimbabwe’s capital city, 48-year-old … Read more
The harvest is almost in, but MSF continues to admit new patients to its emergency feeding programme in eastern Chad It is early morning, and already hot, when two 4×4 vehicles pull up in front of a small health centre in the village of Angara in eastern Chad. A crowd of women and children huddle … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of people are still at risk from cholera two years after the epidemic began in the aftermath of the earthquake which devastated the country. In the capital, Port-au-Prince, more than 350,000 survivors of the earthquake are still in camps, and many thousands are living in shantytowns, where sanitary conditions are deplorable and … Read more
New ‘Patent Opposition Database’ aims to boost access to medicines in countries increasingly hit by high drug prices Geneva, October 5, 2012 – The international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders has launched an online resource to help civil society and patient groups in developing countries challenge unwarranted drug patents. … Read more