Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns the shelling of Daynile Hospital in Mogadishu, which took place Friday, March 30. The fighting began in the morning in this neighborhood of Daynile, located in an outlying area of Mogadishu. The shelling struck the hospital’s emergency room and a portion of...
Several regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing a serious outbreak of malaria. MSF teams are working in three provinces, supporting the Congolese Ministry of Health. So far, MSF has treated more than 17,000 people in Maniema, Equateur and Orientale Provinces. In DRC, malaria is...
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Alarming new data suggest that the global scope of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is much more vast than previously estimated, requiring a concerted international effort to combat this deadlier form of the disease, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said...
Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees in South Sudan urgently need humanitarian aid to be scaled up in a short window of opportunity that is rapidly closing before the rainy season starts, warns the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Since last November, 80,000...
Bihar state, in the northeast of India, is an epicentre of kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis), a neglected tropical disease responsible for 50,000 deaths every year worldwide. Bihar’s Ministry of Health has declared 15 March ‘Kala Azar Day’ to increase awareness of the disease which, if left...
Groundbreaking move sets precedent for overcoming drug price barriers In a landmark case, the Indian Patent Office has issued the first-ever compulsory licence in India to a generic drug manufacturer. This effectively ends German pharmaceutical company Bayer’s monopoly in India on the drug...
Thousands of people who were left homeless have gathered at makeshift sites across the city following last Sunday's explosion at a munitions depot in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières have been evaluating the needs there since Monday...
MSF highlights medical approaches to avert maternal deaths during humanitarian crises On International Women’s Day, the international medical humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is underlining the fact that far too many women continue to die avoidable deaths during childbirth...
By early 2011, Ethiopia received 40,000 refugees coming from Somalia. By the end of 2011, the number had gone over 142,000. A mass exodus triggered by a terrible drought killing crops and herds in a country undergoing a twenty-year conflict, which, far from receding, seems to be exacerbating by the...
