The first phase of a yellow fever vaccination campaign, targeting 2.2 million people in the region of Darfur, ended on December 4, 2012. Launched by the Sudanese health authorities, the international, medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) brought medical and logistical...
Rotavirus is an important cause of life-threatening diarrhoea in Africa but available vaccines may not be the best adapted. Research presented at the 7th African Rotavirus Symposium by Epicentre, the epidemiological research arm of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and other African researchers...
Jordan: Syrian patients in Amman hospital Mali crisis: Desert refugees Nigeria : Lead poisoning Haiti: Severe burns unit Kenya : Victims of sexual violence Guinea : Cholera vaccination
Measles is a major killer in Somalia and it’s easily preventable. Vaccination - with high coverage and proper vaccine management - is critical to saving lives in Somalia. MSF asks all authorities to support emergency vaccination programmes throughout Somalia. Khadijo came to the Médecins Sans...
More than 150,000 people are currently being vaccinated near Conakry, the capital of Guinea, where a cholera epidemic has broken out. For the first time, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to a cholera outbreak in Africa by carrying out a mass vaccination campaign. In Guinea, MSF team is...
“Vaccine prices need to come down so that as many children as possible in developing countries can be protected from killer diseases. For that to happen, we need make sure through price transparency, among other safeguards, that pharmaceutical companies are offering the best deal they can. “ -...
After heavy fighting erupted on October 20 in Daynille, on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to suspend its measles vaccination campaign in the area. The campaign had been scheduled to last three weeks and to reach 35,000 children. Measles is currently wreaking...
Democratic Republic of the Congo -- A million children immunized, Chechnya -- overcoming operational challenges, Malawi -- 10 years of antiretrovirals, Lebanon -- Healing invisible wounds
But are donors getting a fair deal from companies? A vaccine to protect children against pneumococcal diseases has been launched in Africa as part of an international programme to bring the vaccine to poor countries – Kenya is the first African country to receive it. Medécins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
A new, highly-effective vaccine launched in 2010 now offers the hope of an escape from one of the most fatal forms of meningitis in Africa – and it was developed not by one of the big pharmaceutical companies, but thanks to a partnership between the non-profit organisation PATH and the Serum...
