MSF calls for a national and international response to the crisis The Central African Republic (CAR) is in the grip of a chronic medical emergency. Four mortality studies conducted by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the past 18 months reveal crude mortality rates* in some regions are at three...
Following a bomb blast in the capital of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan today (10 December), MSF treated fourteen patients in the organisation’s surgical hospital. The explosion occurred close to a market in central Kunduz around noon today. MSF teams treated patients with blast-related...
MSF response to the funding crisis at the Global Fund In a move that could have a profound impact on patients in developing countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has announced it won’t be accepting any grant applications this year to support treatment programmes because of a...
60 years of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees This week, world leaders will gather in Geneva to commemorate 60 years of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. Yet it is an anniversary that the world’s 15.1 million refugees have little reason to celebrate. Today, states...
US President Obama’s speech on World AIDS Day, committing to reach two million more people with US-funded HIV treatment by the end of 2013 (totaling nearly 6 million people on treatment under US funding). “This commitment today is the shot in the arm that the global HIV/AIDS response needs right...
In the aftermath of the strong earthquakes that struck eastern Turkey on 23 October and 9 November, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extending its activities in the region through the provision of mental healthcare. In collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Turkey and the Van Crisis...
MSF has followed-up nearly 3,000 of the HIV/AIDS patients who received antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) from falsified batches and provided them with replacement ARVs. MSF is working hard to get in contact with the remaining patients who might need to have their drugs switched. On 5th and 7th September...
Thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan Over the past two weeks thousands of refugees have crossed the border from Sudan into the newly independent South Sudan. On Monday 28th November, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started an emergency medical intervention in the village of Doro, some...
Cholera has spread across all districts of Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, home to 2.1 million people. The cholera epidemic was officially declared 14 months ago, in September 2010, and has peaked and troughed a number of times since then. In March/April, during the 'short rainy season',...
