Name : Designation : MSF doctor Ioanna Haziri listens to Orion’s lungs and breathing during her check-up of the little boy. Tajikistan 2013 © Wendy Marijnissen As Orion, a 4-year old boy, runs happily around his family’s home near Vose in southern Tajikistan, his grandfather holds up a picture that shows what the boy looked … Read more
As GAVI meets to examine its progress and look ahead, MSF points to needed policy changes – See more at: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=7125&cat=press-release#sthash.Eat2fQMa.dpuf Geneva/Stockholm/New York, October 28, 2013—Several key policy changes are urgently needed at the GAVI Alliance to help reduce the number of children not benefitting from vaccination globally (22.6 million in 2012), the international medical … Read more
Name : Umeda at her aunt’s home. Tajikistan © Wendy Marijnissen Designation : Umeda at her aunt’s home. Tajikistan © Wendy Marijnissen Umeda and her family live in Shariston, a town near Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe. Her parents are looking for work in Russia while the five-year-old girl stays with her aunt for now. That same … Read more
New TB drug bedaquiline illustrates need for paradigm shift in developing and ensuring access to new treatment combinations. Paris, October 30, 2013: Without a new approach to developing and pricing new tuberculosis medicines, the global TB response will be unable to deliver the new treatment combinations needed to close the deadly treatment gap for drug-resistant tuberculosis … Read more
Name : Designation : The state of South Sudan was born in 2011 after years of violence. As a medical coordinator, Dr Kalyan Velivela was at the forefront of planning the medical aid services of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) there next year. He talks about the situation in the country, its large public … Read more
New Delhi, October 27, 2013 – Cycle enthusiasts from Delhi are getting on bike saddles today to express solidarity with outgoing International President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Dr Unni Karunakara, who is cycling over 5,000 km across the length of India in support of medical humanitarian aid programs in 70 countries around … Read more
25 October 2013 – More than 130,000 people have fled the district of Al Safira, in Aleppo province, which has been under violent attack since 8th October. There is currently insufficient humanitarian aid to meet the massive, and growing, needs of these displaced people, the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said … Read more
An epidemic of haemorrhagic dengue fever is spreading through San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second city, with more than three times as many cases as last year. This form of dengue can be deadly, with children most at risk. Teams from the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have launched an emergency response to bring … Read more
Today sees the launch of the World Health Organization’s Global tuberculosis (TB) report for 2013. We call governments, donors, and the Global Fund to properly resource the treatment of this deadly disease. The report looks at the current state of TB globally, including the rate of and access to diagnosis. It also looks at treatment … Read more
By Chris Lockyear, operations manager for MSF in Pakistan On the afternoon of 24 September, I watched the news unfolding. Houses flattened, hundreds dead and many more injured following a major earthquake in the Awaran district of Balochistan province. It was clear to me that we, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), needed to be there. Alleviating … Read more