An initial medical team made of two MSF staff and the programme coordinator was able to enter the Gaza Strip on 18 November. Additional emergency response staff, such as anaesthetists, resuscitation specialists and surgeons, will be joining the team in the coming days. In the days following the...
As a rebel advance reaches the outskirts of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, tens of thousands of people have fled the fighting leaving villages and displaced persons camps empty. “The atmosphere in the city is tense, people are worried” said...
Dr Martial Ledecq is a surgeon who is just back in Belgium from a one-month mission in one of the four makeshift medical facilities set up by MSF in the north of Syria. Since the end of June 2012, our teams have treated more than 2,500 patients and carried out some 550 surgical procedures. Can you...
MSF releases Zamfara Lead Poisoning progress report Six months on from an International Lead Poisoning Conference, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) warns that time is running out to solve the Zamfara crisis in Nigeria. In a progress report, MSF has been treating lead poisoned children since the start...
The Aka Pygmy communities living in the northern Congo have been ostracised in their home country for many years. They have almost no access to healthcare and, as a result, are still affected by a neglected disease: yaws. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recently carried out a campaign for treating...
New MSF multinational study of paediatric TB/HIV co-infection confirms crisis of undiagnosed TB among children Data from the largest-ever multinational cohort of children infected with both tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, released by the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans...
Results from the largest multi-country implementation of the new rapid tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic test reveal an urgent need to address the growing global crisis of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), according to the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The data...
Severe flooding in the Nasirabad and Jaffarabad districts of Balochistan and Sindh in early September have left thousands of families homeless after they were forced to flee to higher ground. MSF teams have been reaching out to the vulnerable populations providing people with basic healthcare,...
Amina*, mother to a one month old baby boy shares her story on how her child came to be admitted at MSF’s hospital in Dera Murad Jamali. Her son was brought to the MSF nursery when he was 10 days old; weighing only 2.36 kg he was diagnosed with Tetanus. Amina* and her family along with thousands of...
Rotavirus is an important cause of life-threatening diarrhoea in Africa but available vaccines may not be the best adapted. Research presented at the 7th African Rotavirus Symposium by Epicentre, the epidemiological research arm of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and other African researchers...
