Dr Unni Karunakara, International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) In the fight against AIDS, TB and malaria, we should be dealing a knock-out blow. The Global Fund must call an emergency donor conference so countries can reverse these killer epidemics. When the Global Fund to Fight AIDS...
MSF response to the funding crisis at the Global Fund In a move that could have a profound impact on patients in developing countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has announced it won’t be accepting any grant applications this year to support treatment programmes because of a...
MSF response to unprecedented decision to cancel funding round of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, taken at board meeting in Accra, Ghana, November 21-22, 2011 Because donor funding for global HIV/AIDS and the Global Fund has been declining, the Fund is in the most dire financial...
Last year, MSF adopted a new approach to tackling malaria in the Gueckedou region of Guinea. Patients are given drugs with proven effectiveness, and community health workers raise awareness among the population. Gueckedou is about 700 kilometres from Conakry, the capital of Guinea, and one must...
Promising news from the field of malaria research in 2010 shows that treating children suffering from severe malaria with injections of artesunate could save many more lives. Malaria kills around one million people every year, with nine in ten deaths being in young African children. Severe malaria...
MSF teams in Niger are particularly on alert in the period between July and November. Malnourished children are at risk of contracting malaria and many who are already suffering from it become extremely vulnerable as a result of the combination. Malaria further reduces appetite among these children...
by Dr. Martin De Smet, Malaria expert, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) The commemoration of World Malaria Day on April 25th will be of utmost importance this year. The review in September of progress made towards the 2015 Millennium Development Goals will reveal the tragic toll malaria still takes...
Background MSF works in the Kangaba region in southern Mali, where malaria is the main killer and most prevalent. Mali is a poor country and few people have access to health care, particularly during the rainy season when many villages become isolated, and when malaria spreads most rapidly. The MSF...
“We help people to help themselves” How MSF health promoter empowers people in the south of Mali in their fight against malaria “Do you know who I am?” “You work for Médecins Sans Frontières.” “And what does Médecins Sans Frontières do in Mali?” “You help treat diseases like Malaria.” ”We treat...
