The medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the introduction of a new user-friendly and cheaper 2-in-1 tablet of artesunate-amodiaquine against malaria. The treatment, also called ASAQ, is the result of research by the non-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi)...
New data released by the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at the 14th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Los Angeles this week demonstrates good clinical outcomes for second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-...
Ekar Nap – 40 year old Her son Lai Dee – 12 year old Ekar Nap, mother of five, comes from the district of Kirivong, Cambodia, 50 km away from MSF's clinic in Takeo. A volunteer for MSF since April 2001, she has been working as a Patient Support Person. She receives mothers at the paediatric ward,...
"Our biggest problem has been transporting staff and supplies through the city." The Indonesian emergency team of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been offering medical consultations for people affected by the severe floods in and around Jakarta. They have focused on sending mobile clinics to...
The migrants often live in a twilight zone, with no official status and no rights to fall back on. Malaysia, with its booming economy and surrounded largely by poorer nations, attracts high numbers of migrants. Many of them come to find work in construction or agriculture. Others have fled violence...
Company would effectively be shutting down the "armacy of the developing world" As pharmaceutical company Novartis proceeds with its legal challenge against the Indian government in a court hearing in Chennai today, nearly a quarter of a million people from over 150 countries have expressed their...
It took Chai four hours of stumbling through mud to cart her sick husband in a hammock from her village to the main road. It then cost her an entire week's wages she would normally reserve for food to flag down a car to take him to the hospital. But when she arrived, exhausted and terrified, the...
