Governments must commit to massively scale up treatment at UN Summit on AIDS Governments will meet at the United Nations in New York for an HIV/AIDS Summit from 8 to 10 June, to discuss the global response to the epidemic over the next five to ten years. Hanging in the balance will be the lives of...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams struggle to provide urgent medical assistance following violent clashes in the Abyei region of Sudan as the security situation continues to deteriorate. The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is responding to the...
It’s a Saturday evening.
It rains almost everyday during the week. It’s rainy season in Nigeria from June to September. Port Harcourt is in the Niger River Delta. It has one of the most rainfall in Nigeria.
As violence escalates in a refugee camp on the Tunisia-Libya border, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is alarmed about the situation of refugees stranded in temporary camps and exposed to violence. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have passed through Shousha camp since the start of the Libyan...
MSF Niger study reinforces that high-quality nutritious foods should be a pillar in global fight against childhood mortality; G8 countries should ensure that appropriate foods reach vulnerable children Mortality rates were observed to be 50 percent lower among a large group of young children in the...
It’s great I have my own bedroom today after some other expatriate left. We finished work today early and returned home at 7:30pm. I had time to unpack my baggage. It’s a nice, tidy room with shower and hot water supply.
I experienced the power of tropical storm yesterday. There was already raining in morning. We started our ward round a bit late in Sunday morning. Then we had a short case needed operation. The pouring rainfall came while we were in hospital.
The situation in Abidjan had been very tense until April 13, two days after the Gbagbo regime fell. Since that time, the improvement has been palpable. Some fighting broke out on May 3 and 4, in the Yopougon district, the stronghold of forces loyal to outgoing President Gbagbo, the main...
