The stagnation of HIV/AIDS funding and the high cost of new medicines put the lives of thousands of poor patients at risk. Patients needing new drug regimens will return to AIDS death row, warns medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at the 2009 International AIDS Society...
On Tuesday 14th July 2009, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) witnessed a group of around 30 police with local officials enter Kutupalong makeshift camp in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, and destroy 259 homes, looting people’s possessions in the process. The building material from the destroyed homes was...
As the conflict in Mogadishu reaches new heights, MSF still manages to curb the worst effects of an ongoing measles outbreak in neighbouring regions. The people in Guri El know that as soon as a child comes down with a high fever, red eyes and tiny spots on the inside of the mouth, they need to...
A measles epidemic has hit northern Mali this year. MSF is providing treatment to sick people and has launched a vaccination campaign for approximately 400,000 children between six months and 15 years of age. More than 2,500 patients have so far had measles in the regions of Timbuktu and Gao. MSF...
Working in conjunction with the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health, Médecins Sans Frontières' medical teams in Vavuniya district have performed more than 5,000 surgeries over five months, most to treat conflict-related injuries. Activities are currently focused on post-operative care (minor surgery,...
MSF calls on endemic countries to diagnose and treat Chagas patients and demands more research and development of new medicines, rapid diagnosis tests and cure tests This year, one hundred years since the discovery of Chagas disease, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (...
MSF calls for all parties to the conflict to respect the safety of civilians The resumption of fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, has forced the majority of people living in the Yaqshid, Karaan and Abdul Azziz districts in the north of the city to flee, according to the medical humanitarian...
34-year-old Homa Mansoor is a medical doctor at the HIV/AIDS clinic of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Mumbai, India. She was called to West Bengal (India) after an MSF assessment found many communities still in dire need of basic assistance a month after cyclone Aila hit. MSF aims to distribute...
Nearly two months after cyclone Aila devastated East India and the coast of Bangladesh, the plight of survivors is no longer headline news. However daily flooding is making their recovery almost impossible. In North 24 Parganas, one of the worse affected areas in West Bengal of India, MSF is...
MSF steps up support in hospitals Pakistan’s Mardan District, in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is trying to cope with an influx of more than one million people fleeing war in the region. While MSF teams have not detected alarming mortality or epidemic rates among the population, existing...
