Tensions have increased in the hills to the east of Jerusalem where some 2,500 Palestinian Bedouins live. The tents and metal shacks where they live and keep their animals are being demolished by Israeli officials in an attempt to force them off their land and push them to live in urban areas in the West … Read more
Level of primary transmission alarming Mumbai, 27 October 2014: Ahead of the Union World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) releases a new study today which points to an alarmingly high burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) among HIV-positive patients at antiretroviral therapy (ART) centres in Mumbai. The findings … Read more
Originally appeared in The New York Times on Oct 10 2014.https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/world/africa/doctors-without-borders-e… When the Ebola virus began relentlessly spreading in Sierra Leone months ago, government officials made an urgent plea to Doctors Without Borders, all that appeared to stand between the country and chaos. “They asked us to be everywhere,” recalled Walter Lorenzi, the medical charity’s … Read more
Tens of thousands of people have taken refuge in a camp near Bentiu, one of several “Protection of Civilian” camps managed by the UN’s mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and set up spontaneously after violence swept across the country last December. 26 September 2014 Located in one of the world’s largest swamps, for much … Read more
MSF India has been present in Kashmir for over a decade now. Our critical needs assessment post the floods in Jammu and Kashmir revealed a robust community relief effort. Three experts provide their views on the scale and magnitude of the floods, and MSF’s role in the area in the weeks to come. When the … Read more
Mamadee, 11, was admitted to MSF’s Ebola management centre in Foya, Liberia on 15 August 2014. He tested positive for Ebola, but recovered, and was discharged on 4 September 2014.In the ‘Ebola-confirmed’ area of MSF’s Case Management Centre (CMC) in Foya, Liberia, roughly two thirds of patients don’t survive the Ebola virus. The patients gather … Read more
Pierre Trbovic, an anthropologist from Belgium, arrived in the Liberian capital, Monrovia in late August to help with MSF’s response to the Ebola epidemic. Finding the treatment centre full, health staff overwhelmed, and sick people queuing in the street, Pierre volunteered for the heartwrenching job of turning people away. Soon after arriving in Monrovia, I … Read more
Central African Republic: MSF denounces violence against teams and health facilities that has forced the suspension of activities in the city of Batangafo • “We need respect towards the physical and psychological integrity of our patients and staff”• “Some elements have tried to apprehend Muslim patients and staff members”• Tension in the town has increased … Read more
New Delhi/Patna, September 5, 2014: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the Government of India’s initiative to adopt Single Dose Liposomal Amphotericin B (LAmB) as a first line drug for treating kala azar (Visceral Leishmaniasis – VL) in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal – the most endemic states in India. The announcement made by … Read more
MSF Denounces International Inaction in Ebola-stricken African Countries; States Must Deploy Specialized Medical Assets Now NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 – World leaders are failing to address the worst ever Ebola epidemic, and states with biological-disaster response capacity, including civilian and military medical capability, must immediately dispatch assets and personnel to West Africa, the … Read more