An outbreak of yellow fever has been ravaging Angola since December 2015, raising fears that the disease will spread to other African countries or Asia. The limited stocks of vaccines constitute a particular challenge. Michel Van Herp, an epidemiologist with MSF, gave us an update on the situation...
In the DRC, MSF is vaccinating the entire population of the city of Matadi, while treatment and yellow fever vector control activities (destruction of the mosquitos) are under way in Kinshasa and in Kongo Central province. In Angola, Médecins Sans Frontières ( MSF) is supporting the Ministry of...
With simultaneous epidemics of meningitis and measles in Niger, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have been supporting the Ministry of Health in its efforts to bring them under control, while taking steps to prevent cholera spreading from neighbouring Nigeria. The...
Ministerial Conference on Immunisation in Africa presses countries to do more, but gives free pass to pharmaceutical companies charging inflated vaccine prices. As the first-ever Ministerial-level meeting on immunisation in Africa gets underway today, the international medical humanitarian...
The percentage of immunised children in Central African Republic (CAR) has fallen sharply since the crisis began in 2013. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is now planning to vaccinate one quarter of all the country’s children against the principal childhood killer diseases. However, this type of...
Dr. Marwan* worked with MSF in Tal Abyad, northern Syria. After refusing a job offer from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, he knew his life was in danger, and made the hard decision to leave for Europe. “I was a paediatric doctor in Syria, married with two children. We lived in...
Resolution passes at World Health Assembly, calling for more affordable vaccines and greater transparency on vaccine pricing Governments meeting in Geneva for the annual World Health Assembly raised the alarm today on the exorbitant rise in the price to vaccinate a child, and took a decisive step...
Thousands of people fleeing violence in the contested border area between Sudan and South Sudan are in desperate need of food, water and medical care. MSF has launched an emergency intervention to assist them as they arrive, mostly empty-handed, in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state in South Sudan,...
Vaccine should be used to help control and prevent deadly outbreaks An oral cholera vaccine protected individuals by 86 percent during a recent outbreak in Guinea, according to a New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) study to be published tomorrow. The study, conducted by Epicentre, research arm...
