Name : © Mario Travaini / MSF Designation : The story of a premature baby in Syria. “I was the only midwife on the day Sedra’s* mother came to MSF’s hospital in Syria,” says Amanda Godballe, a Danish midwife working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at one of its projects inside Syria. A … Read more
Four in five refugees in the camps at Dadaab do not want to return to Somalia given the current climate of insecurity, finds an MSF assessment November 28, 2013: An agreement to begin the voluntary repatriation of Somalis from Kenya could potentially be a positive step, but must not happen at the expense of providing … Read more
“Yes, I think many injured will be coming now…. perhaps we’d better call the surgeon.” “Good idea,” I say after some time. It sounds stupid. I cannot think of a better reply. These were the words spoken by my assistant Ayyub* at 6:15 am on a crisp July morning in northern Syria, as we peered … Read more
Name : Designation : In May this year Dr Zahid Shafi Ansari was in a remote region in Chad, Africa offering his services in a village where the reach of healthcare is limited. This is his experience on assignment with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). I spent a month on Chad’s fringes as a … Read more
Despite increasing humanitarian aid in typhoon-hit areas of the Philippines, MSF teams are still finding villages and towns that have not yet received any aid. MSF’s teams are working in hospitals, running mobile clinics, providing mental healthcare, distributing essential relief items and clean drinking water. In Guiuan, 1,200 tents have been distributed and potable water … Read more
SF Renews Call for Increased Humanitarian Response to Ongoing Crisis New York, November 26, 2013—A massive humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) is growing even more severe, as fighting and threats against civilians near the town of Bouca have driven hundreds more people to flee, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins … Read more
Johannesburg, November 25, 2013 — The fight against HIV/AIDS has been hailed as one of the most successful public health projects in human history, but teams from the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) see the revolution as unfulfilled for millions of people excluded from treatment. Today, MSF launches a film series titled … Read more
Port Moresby, 25 November 2013 – Family and sexual violence (FSV) is a medical-humanitarian emergency with serious consequences for survivors, at individual and also family level. Its effects go far beyond domestic borders and affect public health at national level. Survivors need access to free, quality, confidential, integrated medical care, as well as high quality … Read more
On November 22, 2013, the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation for delamanid, only the second new TB drug to be developed in 50 years. It is hoped that the new drug, marketed by the Japanese company Otsuka, will be pivotal in improving … Read more
Cindy Penalber is a Filipino nurse from the town of Estancia in northeast Panay Island. She has been helping survivors of Typhoon Haiyan since it hit the Philippines on November 8. Cindy and many of her colleagues are now working alongside Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mobile clinic teams to provide medical care in … Read more