On Monday, 5th of August, a group of armed men attacked a car belonging to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on a main road outside Juba. Two MSF staff members were seriously injured, one of them died from his injuries two days later. The car was clearly marked as belonging to MSF. The exact circumstances of … Read more
On Monday, 5th of August, a group of armed men attacked a car belonging to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on a main road outside Juba. Two MSF staff members were seriously injured, one of them died from his injuries two days later. The car was clearly marked as belonging to MSF. The exact … Read more
GENEVA/NEW YORK AUGUST 8, 2013—As Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) begins vaccinating children against pneumonia in a refugee camp in South Sudan, the international medical humanitarian organization warned today that the global vaccination community is neglecting to provide new vaccines to crisis-affected children. While planning to immunize children against pneumococcal diseases in the Yida … Read more
PARIS/NEW YORK, AUGUST 6, 2013—The majority of people who died while fleeing central Darfur, Sudan, earlier in the year perished as a result of violence, and mostly by gunfire, according to a retrospective mortality survey released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Between January and May 2013, tens … Read more
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN/NEW YORK, AUGUST 1, 2013 – An estimated 100,000 displaced people who fled violence in South Sudan’s southern Jonglei State are still in dire need of access to emergency medical care, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. This massive population displacement, which began in May and … Read more
Name : Designation : Which is the most resilient? A bacteria? A virus? It’s an idea! Both tough and highly contagious, an idea, in my experience, is almost impossible to root out once it takes hold. © Devi Prasad Mohapatra It was an idea that led to the creation of MSF in 1971 and it … Read more
Name : Forty-eight-year-old Linda Vilakati is one of 55 patients who have just successfully completed treatment for MDR-TB in Swaziland. Swaziland 2013 © Zanele Zwane/MSF Designation : “I feel like jumping and dancing and shouting,” says Linda Vilakati. “It has been a long and difficult journey, but I’ve reached the end.” Forty-eight-year-old Linda Vilakati is … Read more
Name : Designation : Visceral leishmaniasis is known worldwide as kala azar. Since 2007 MSF is implementing a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Bihar state, northern India. India 2011 © Anna Surinyach / MSF It is 10 in the morning and several people are already waiting at the lab doors to be tested … Read more
MSF teams in Mauritania are scaling up their medical activities in Mbéra camp to help the 75,000 Malian people who are stranded in the desert. MSF has been working in the camp since February 2012 and while the emergency phase of the response is coming to an end, significant needs remain. The following is an … Read more
Syrian doctor Jamal describes working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a converted school that now serves as an outpatient clinic. As the conflict in Syria wears on and people are forced to live in increasingly difficult conditions. Without adequate access to health care, health problems like diabetes, hypertension, and mental health conditions … Read more