PARIS/NEW YORK—An oral cholera vaccine protected individuals by 86 percent during a recent outbreak in Guinea, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The study, conducted by Epicentre, research arm of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and the Guinean Ministry of Health, … Read more
The cholera outbreak in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, continues to spread. The latest official statistics report 733 cholera cases. The majority of cases continue to be treated in the main Ministry of Health hospital in the city, Juba Teaching Hospital, where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has sent four staff to … Read more
23 May 2014, Juba – More than 315 cholera cases have been recorded in South Sudan since the Ministry of Health (MoH) officially declared an outbreak in the capital, Juba, on 15 May 2014. In other locations around the country there have been suspected cases that are awaiting laboratory confirmation. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières … Read more
Name : Designation : Mitchell Sangma started out as a medical doctor with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2010. On his fourth and most recent assignment, he led MSF’s medical team in Zimbabwe. He shares his experience of a particularly difficult case and the challenge of fighting against the odds. The 22-year-old had limited … Read more
Speaker: Phumeza Tisile, TB activist, former MSF patient, survivor of XDR-TB World Health Assembly 67 – Agenda item 12.1, Global strategy and targets for tuberculosis prevention, care and control after 2015 Intervention by Phumeza Tisile, Médecins Sans Frontières International My name is Phumeza Tisile. I was diagnosed with normal TB in 2010, while all along … Read more
On the eve of the World Health Assembly taking place in Geneva, Switzerland, where delegates will adopt an ambitious 20-year global plan to address tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges governments to focus intensely on improving DR-TB testing and care over the next 12 months. MSF is delivering … Read more
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today confirmed that five of its staff members held in Syria have been safely released. The organization strongly condemns this abduction, which has forced the permanent closure of one of its hospitals and two health centers in the Jabal Akkrad region in northwestern … Read more
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing care in the Solomon Islands, a large group of islands in Oceania, to people displaced from their homes by devastating flash floods in early April. Some 10,000 people were left homeless in the capital, Honiara, after floods swept away riverside communities, brought down bridges, destroyed roads, and … Read more
“My 10 year old daughter decided to follow me when I visited a friend at the hospital. She managed to escape from my sister’s and got on a bus. But she never found me. Instead I got a call from the police: she had been taken by a stranger and raped. I could not stop … Read more
In protest against the brutal killing of 16 civilians, including three of its humanitarian workers, at Boguila Hospital on April 26, Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is reducing its activities in the Central African Republic (CAR) and related projects in neighbouring countries for one week to emergency medical care only. The organization will also … Read more