by Dr. Martin De Smet, Malaria expert, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) The commemoration of World Malaria Day on April 25th will be of utmost importance this year. The review in September of progress made towards the 2015 Millennium Development Goals will reveal the tragic toll malaria still takes...
Background MSF works in the Kangaba region in southern Mali, where malaria is the main killer and most prevalent. Mali is a poor country and few people have access to health care, particularly during the rainy season when many villages become isolated, and when malaria spreads most rapidly. The MSF...
“We help people to help themselves” How MSF health promoter empowers people in the south of Mali in their fight against malaria “Do you know who I am?” “You work for Médecins Sans Frontières.” “And what does Médecins Sans Frontières do in Mali?” “You help treat diseases like Malaria.” ”We treat...
The three-person assessment team sent to the area affected by the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that devastated the town of Jiegu last Wednesday have finished the initial stage of their assessment. According to the latest figures by Chinese official media, the quake in the Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu...
The three-person Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) assessment team arrived in Yushu on Saturday evening and spent Sunday meeting officials and looking at medical needs. The team met with the local Public Health Bureau as well as Foreign Affairs officials who said that MSF assistance with the initial...
Following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai Province early Wednesday, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) three-person assessment team arrived on Friday in the provincial capital Xining and has made contact with provincial health officials, the local Red Cross and INGOs who have been working...
On that fateful Tuesday morning, Fatima endured an incomplete miscarriage after a two-month pregnancy. Fatima’s husband rented a car from their village, Khartoum Jadeed. The couple was joined by sympathetic family members: two male relatives and a female relative on a two hour and half journey to...
The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12 brought even greater uncertainty to a population that was already extremely vulnerable. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working in Haiti since 1991 and was therefore able to react immediately to the earthquake, working out of temporary...
Hundreds of wounded arrived in Bishkek hospitals on April 7, following violent confrontations between armed forces and protesters in the streets of Kyrgyzstan’s capital. Médecins Sans Frontières’s team in Kyrgyzstan immediately responded yesterday by providing the National Hospital and the main...
Following an explosion in the Lower Dir district of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province on Monday, doctors and medical staff from the medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Pakistan’s Ministry of Health treated 88 injured people, most of whom were seriously wounded in the blast...
