Emiliano LUCERO is Argentinian and has just returned from Mexico after working there for a year as a medical coordinator. In this interview, he talks about the challenges the organisation faces in the country and the populations we are assisting there: transmigrants travelling from Central America...
“In this area of Boquerón, with one of the highest rates of Chagas in Paraguay, we are being forced slow down the rate at which we test people for the disease because we simply don’t have the drugs to treat them.” - Dr. Henry RODRÍGUEZ, MSF Head of Mission in Bolivia and Paraguay, October 2011 Drug...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stops diagnosing Chagas disease in Paraguay due to treatment shortage. In Bolivia, new projects in endemic areas are suspended. Thousands of people with Chagas disease will go untreated in coming months due to a shortage of benznidazole, the first-line drug used in...
