07 December 2012 – The impact of violence in Central America and Mexico cannot be understated. Widespread violence and its dramatic medical consequences are threatening to become a humanitarian crisis, while health systems – already underfunded and short of medical staff – are unable to cope. The lack of adapted policies to respond to this … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders is completing distribution of Non Food Items (NFI) kits to communities impacted by recent violent clashes in Assam. Riots between two communities were first reported in July 2012 and soon flared into a major humanitarian crisis which left more than 90 people dead and over 400.000 displaced For months the … Read more
Three new issue briefs outlining Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s / Doctors Without Borders main concerns regarding the need for adapted vaccines, the need to bring vaccine prices down, and the need to address vaccine supply problems can be accessed at: msfaccess.org/briefings. MSF is deeply concerned that the current global vaccination strategy is not paying enough attention … Read more
4 December 2012 – Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders is completing distribution of Non Food Items (NFI) kits to communities impacted by recent violent clashes in Assam. Riots between two communities were first reported in July 2012 and soon flared into a major humanitarian crisis which left more than 90 people dead and over 400.000 … Read more
Though I am a first missioner for MSF, I am not new to Africa or working with underprivileged people. Before joining MSF I worked for almost 17 years in India, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka, in various positions including as a community health specialist, programme officer and lecturer. In 2006, working with [the international health charity] … Read more
An already fragile humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has deteriorated further after the border city of Goma fell to M23 rebels last week with hundreds of people injured and thousands displaced from their homes. Teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have rapidly set up additional emergency response activities, treating victims of … Read more
London, 19 November 2012 — New research from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) projects in Kabezi, Burundi, and Bo, Sierra Leone, indicates that it is possible to achieve a rapid and substantial decrease in maternal deaths of up to 74 per cent by providing access to emergency obstetric care. MSF’s research is the first of its … Read more
Standard TB Test Failing to Detect the Disease in Children 93 Percent of the Time GENEVA/KUALA LUMPUR/NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 15, 2012-Data from the largest-ever multinational cohort of children infected with both tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, definitively shows that there … Read more
MSF Calls on Nigerian Government and President to Immediately Release Earmarked Funds for Critical Environmental Remediation of Entire Village ABUJA, NIGERIA, NOVEMBER 15, 2012-The Nigerian government has failed to promptly release funds needed to remove lead from homes in a northern area of Nigeria, worsening a health crisis in which hundreds of children have fallen … Read more
Geneva/Kuala Lumpur, 13 November 2012 – Results from the largest multi-country implementation of the new rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic test reveal an urgent need to address the growing global crisis of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), according to the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The data, presented at the 43rd annual Union World Conference … Read more