On December 5, 2013, several hundred people were killed during armed clashes that shook the city of Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic (CAR). Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) immediately began treating patients wounded in the fighting and has since been working to provide care to the large numbers of people who were … Read more
The hospitals in the northern city of Aleppo have found themselves overwhelmed after a wave of airstrikes killed over 100 people and left many more injured in the last few days, according to local medical sources. The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting the hospitals in the area with medical … Read more
Interview with Carla Peruzzo, medical coordinator, MSF Bulgaria This year, nearly 10,000 migrants and refugees, the majority from Syria, have arrived in Bulgaria. The unexpected influx has put pressure on the Bulgarian authorities’ capacity to provide proper shelter and health care. Significant improvements are still needed in preparation for the coming winter. As the war … Read more
Brussels, 12 Dec 2013 – As UN humanitarian organisations agree to further mobilise resources in response to the humanitarian crisis in Central African Republic (CAR), MSF has released an open letter addressed to Valérie Amos, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, expressing that this decision has to be urgently translated in reality. It urges … Read more
December 13, 2013: A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mobile emergency team is providing round-the-clock medical care at Bangui airport, addressing the medical needs of some 40,000 displaced people who’ve been sheltering there following an outbreak of violence that has convulsed the Central African Republic capital since December 5. “It’s a very difficult situation,” said … Read more
*/ Doctor Thomas Lauvin has just returned from Syria’s Aleppo governorate, where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a hospital with an operating theater, a maternity ward, an emergency room, and an outpatient department. There, he coordinated the assistance MSF is providing to Syrian doctors and volunteers in the region. In this interview, Dr … Read more
Name : MSF Mobile clinic in Macanip village. © Florian Lems/MSF Designation : MSF Mobile clinic in Macanip village. © Florian Lems/MSF In the village of Macanip, in the north of Leyte island, Philippines, Typhoon Haiyan destroyed four in five buildings and reduced the local health post to a pile of crushed concrete. MSF teams have … Read more
Name : Sonu Kumar cured of kala azar © Nancy Barrett/MSF Designation : Sonu is like any other kid from his village in Raghopur (Vaishali district), Bihar. A bit intimidated when we met him, he was soon confident and showed us how fast he could run around the MSF car parked at the entrance of … Read more
Name : Frank Aalderinks Designation : In the MSF Mother and Child Health Centre in Bijapur town of Chhattisgarh, MSF doctors give medical check-up to the baby who was born pre-maturely. Copyright: P.K.Lee Lalita shares her room in the Mother and Child Health Centre (MCHC) in Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, with two other mothers who have … Read more
“In India, over half a million people living with HIV are on treatment but the best tool to monitor their treatment – the viral load test – is not easily accessible and available. Access to viral load testing is strictly rationed and is only available if the SACEP (State AIDS Clinical Expert Panel) committee – … Read more