On the road to Afgooye, an estimated 200,000 displaced people fleeing Somalia’s capital city are living in incredibly difficult sanitary conditions. Mortality and health indicators are largely above emergency levels. Increased fighting inside Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu has led to another exodus...
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a member of the herpes virus family that was a familiar cause of blindness and death in patients with advanced AIDS in Western countries in the 1980s and 1990s, when it occurred in roughly one-third of patients with AIDS. Infection may lie dormant and activate once the...
"I had one patient – a 23 year-old woman who has to be led everywhere now by her partner since she went blind. It's really awful to see young people in their twenties lose their sight. China is not an easy place for blind people and it's even worse to be blind and HIV positive." Dr. Karen Kiang...
Failure to diagnose and treat cytomegalovirus retinitis (CMV) in people with AIDS is leading to unnecessary blindness, according to a paper published today in the journal PLoS Medicine. The authors found in pilot studies that CMV retinitis, which has been dramatically reduced in wealthy countries...
Laboratory tests confirmed the presence of the Ebola virus in samples taken in the west of Uganda, on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to the Ministry of Health of Uganda, a total of 64 suspected cases, and 21 deaths, have been reported in the villages of Kykyo and...
The international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces the pervasive and systematic use of rape and violence perpetrated by the Angolan army during the expulsions of Congolese migrants working in diamond mines in the Angolan province of Lunda Norte. MSF teams arrived...
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our much respected Sudanese colleague James Agut. James was among four people who were beaten to death in the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) compound in Bor, South Sudan, while trying to escape violent clashes that had erupted inside the...
Early yesterday morning (HK time: yesterday afternoon), four people were murdered and one injured inside a car of the medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Bor, South Sudan. Eight patients and family members, including a baby, had been evacuated from the hospital when...
