Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is providing medical assistance in six areas hit by back-to-back typhoons and floods in Bulacan province in Luzon. MSF team composed of medical doctors, nurses and logisticians, conducted medical assessment starting in early October, after typhoons Nesat and Nalgae...
Severe flooding in Pakistan has affected millions of people, with the southeastern province of Sindh particularly badly hit. Weeks of torrential monsoon rains have seen canals bursting their banks and flooding villages, leaving tens of thousands of families homeless for the past two months...
The number of people in the Gaza Strip suffering the after-effects of serious injuries has increased in recent years. However, with the embargo currently in effect, it is very difficult to obtain access to appropriate, specialized care. In July 2010, MSF signed an agreement with the Gaza health...
Persisting needs among undocumented migrants, but MSF not permitted to respond. After months of negotiations and discussions with Thai authorities, it has proved impossible to get permission to provide healthcare to undocumented migrants and vulnerable populations in Thailand that Médecins Sans...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stops diagnosing Chagas disease in Paraguay due to treatment shortage. In Bolivia, new projects in endemic areas are suspended. Thousands of people with Chagas disease will go untreated in coming months due to a shortage of benznidazole, the first-line drug used in...
MSF is taking all measures to ensure adequate treatment and medical follow up for patients On 5 and 7 September, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) missions in Kenya detected quality problems with one antiretroviral medicine (ARV) named Zidolam-N used to treat people with HIV. MSF nurses reported...
At the request of authorities, MSF has terminated its medical care activities in the city of Zahedan, capital of the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, in southeastern Iran. Zahedan is an Iranian city located approximately 70 kilometers (20-30 as the crow flies) from the border with Pakistan and...
Measles starts with a fever, runny nose and a cough, then a rash. For children who are not immunised this often spells disaster. Today, in Somalia measles is among the biggest threats to the survival of tens of thousands of vulnerable malnourished children when the disease sweeps quickly through...
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