Scores of people have been wounded in fighting in Yemen over recent days, with many treated at the Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in the southern city of Aden. Clashes in Aden have increased after Houthi fighters entered the city this morning. Looting is ongoing amidst the clashes and general chaos. … Read more
Geeta*, an XDR-TB patient at the MSF clinic at Mumbai, photographed at her home. Patients face stigma that can cut them off from their families and communities. The masks they wear while infectious adds to their sense of isolation. The intense tropical heat makes the mask extremely uncomfortable to wear. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans … Read more
The brutal violence against the medical mission has put the healthcare system on the verge of collapse March 11, 2015 — As the war in Syria enters its fifth year, a dreadful humanitarian situation reigns in eastern Aleppo where the indiscriminate use of barrel bombings since December 2013 has caused high numbers of fatal casualties and wounded, … Read more
The industrial city of Gorlovka in eastern Ukraine has been under constant shelling, its hospitals are overwhelmed with the wounded, and medical supplies have run out, leaving doctors to stitch up patients … Read more
India, a critical producer of affordable generic medicines, has faced an increasing barrage of intense criticism for its progressive patent law and policies, not only from multinational pharmaceutical companies but also from the United States government. India’s progressive policies play a key role in enabling its generic manufacturers to compete and produce medicines at affordable … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has admitted its first patients to a new Ebola Treatment Center (ETC) in Kissy, an Ebola hotspot on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone. With the highest Ebola caseload globally, Sierra Leone’s bed capacity for Ebola treatment remains insufficient to meet the needs of patients, specifically in new hotspots. Throughout the … Read more
A clinical trial for a possible treatment for Ebola started in Guinea on the 17th of December. The trial is led by the French medical research institute INSERM and is taking place at MSF’s Ebola Treatment Centre in Guéckédou, in the east of the country. Although every experimental treatment for Ebola patients offers hope, MSF … Read more
To increase access to care for Ebola patients in Western Sierra Leone, which has been hit hard by the current outbreak, the international humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has opened new treatment centers (ETCs) in Freetown and Magburaka. The … Read more
The team collecting victims of Ebola – both living and dead – from the community in Monrovia face a challenging task in the fight against Ebola The phone rings. There is a dead body in the neighbourhood and, as with every death in the city of Monrovia at the moment, Ebola is the suspect. The … Read more
In Zimbabwe’s many places people still live a rural life with their cattle and goats, existing from what they cultivate. Big clinics are far away. For those living with HIV who need their antiretroviral therapy (ART) regularly this may cause big problems. To bring the drugs to the patients, in 2012 Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans … Read more