The prototype of a new tool for rapidly measuring the viral load of HIV, named SAMBA (Simple AMplification Based Assay), is currently being evaluated at our AIDS programme in Chiradzulu in Malawi. If the results of this trial are positive, the implementation of this test will represent a net...
While the post-election violence that wracked communities in Ivory Coast ended almost a month ago in most of the country, emergency medical needs remain at critical levels. In Abidjan, health centres and hospitals are overwhelmed with patients, including the newly wounded, and medical and drug...
Two months after the massive earthquake and tsunami in the northeast of Japan, a team of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Japanese psychologists are continuing to work with survivors as government-led recovery efforts expand across the region. MSF has also designed, provided materials and managed the...
Written by Alison CRIADO-PEREZ, Head Nurse on both MedEvac boat operations from Misrata to Tunisia: We had just returned from MSF’s second evacuation of war-wounded from the besieged city of Misrata to the safety of hospitals in Tunisia. I walked out onto the balcony and saw a small, blonde girl,...
I have been in Kinshasa, the capital city of the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) now for almost 1 month, working in the MSF Coordination Office. I am here as the Financial Coordinator of one of the largest missions of MSF. I can say that it
Even as the bombings continue, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are ramping up their medical activities and have been performing surgeries in the northern part of the besieged city of Misrata. For the past two months, government forces and insurgents have been battling over the city of Misrata...
Following the spread of a cholera epidemic in the capital city of Yaoundé in Cameroon, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a cholera treatment centre and provided care for hundreds of patients. It is five pm on 31 st March at a new cholera treatment centre (CTC) in Yaoundé, which has just been...
Once again, international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on Italian authorities to drastically improve reception conditions for new arrivals, particularly for the most vulnerable - women, children, unaccompanied minors and victims of violence. At the weekend 12 boats...
During a week of intense violence that preceeded the arrest of former Ivory Coast president Laurent GBAGBO on April 11, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team working at the Abobo Sud Hospital in northern Abidjan was isolated and unable to obtain additional supplies from the outside. Delphine...
A 12-person Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team is working in Kasr Ahmed hospital, in the besieged village of Misrata, setting up medical and surgical activities and providing support to the Al Hikma hospital. An MSF team arrived in Misrata on Thursday, April 28, to strengthen the three-person team...
