MSF Malaria prevention pilot projects in Mali and Chad show dramatic, promising results; Malaria cases and hospitalizations plummet A large scale malaria prevention program, consisting of intermittent distributions of anti-malaria medicines, appears to be drastically reducing the number of new...
After 9 months’ mission in Afghanistan, I am now in South Sudan for an emergency mission. South Sudan separated from Sudan in July last year and it is the youngest country.
More than 2,000 white tents line the green hills near the village of Bambasi, in western Ethiopia. Since July, they have been home to 12,000 Sudanese refugees who fled their homeland and are now taking sanctuary from conflict in a camp established by the Ethiopian authorities and the United Nations...
18 July 2012
Today is the first day of Ramadhan. The twilight sky starts to appear and there is nothing I want more than to go home and prepare food for the break of my fasting. This year I spend the Ramadhan on my own, far away from home.
The work of MSF in Yida camp is proving effective. As explained by André HELLER, MSF head of mission in South Sudan, MSF has managed to reduce the mortality rate in this camp of families seeking refuge from conflict and food insecurity in Sudan. But living conditions remain a concern, as does the...
Carmen lives with her husband and two children in Mozambique. She is HIV positive, but she lives a happy and healthy life thanks to affordable medicines she receives through a government programme supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). But this month, Carmen’s future, and the future of...
MSF is trying to limit the spread of an Ebola outbreak declared in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A retrospective investigation of the suspected cases shows that 31 people have died since the outbreak started in May. Only 16 cases are laboratory confirmed. The epicentre of...
The International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Dr Unni Karunakara, met yesterday in Geneva with a Bahraini parliamentary delegation, that included the Minister of Human Rights, Dr Salah Bin Ali Abdularahman. Dr Karunakara raised issues related to the need for impartial access to...
An emergency response to an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has come to an end. The MSF team handed over the Ebola treatment centre it had set up in Uganda’s western Kibaale district to the Ugandan Ministry of Health. After the outbreak was declared in late-July, MSF’s...
