A woman of around twenty years old wearing a black dress and shabby flowerish chitenje is in the consultation room. A baby is sleeping on her lap. She hands me a small orange book with a torn cover.
An emergency team from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is in Kigadi, in western Uganda’s Kibaale district, to help fight an outbreak of the Ebola virus. Other MSF teams in Uganda are closely monitoring the situation. The Ebola outbreak, confirmed by Ugandan government on 28 July, has killed at least...
“What we are facing is an extremely serious situation” About 100,000 refugees fleeing the fighting in the Sudanese state of Blue Nile have taken refuge in Maban County in South Sudan. They are weak and exhausted after their long trip. In the camp of Batil, home for 34,000 people, malnutrition is...
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Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown is currently struggling to contain a cholera outbreak, which has affected over 1500 people and claimed at least 17 lives in the city. MSF, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, is already running three cholera treatment units in the city, and has treated over...
Middle-income countries are increasingly taking measures to overcome the patents that price drugs out of reach, according to a new report released from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Untangling the web of Antiretroviral price reductions. In March, India for the first time issued a ‘compulsory...
In the last month MSF teams have treated high numbers of victims of violence in Morocco´s Oriental Region. Bordering the Spanish enclave of Melilla, this region is home to many hundreds of sub-Saharan African migrants who are a route to Europe. MSF has worked with this vulnerable population since...
Many patients with drug-resistant TB that arrive at MSF’s clinic in Mumbai have received incorrect or inadequate treatment in the private sector. Although this form of TB is curable if treated early enough, some of the patients, like ‘Shanti’*, are in such bad condition that their lives cannot be...
While new United Nations data pointing to gains made in the fight against HIV/AIDS is sparking optimism ahead of the 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, countries most affected by the pandemic continue to struggle to place enough people on treatment and to implement the best science...
In the Sahel, the annual "hunger gap" period has only just begun, but in some regions of Chad the malnutrition situation is already worse than usual. In a few weeks' time, the rains will have rendered a lot of the country inaccessible and it will be impossible to reach children in need of treatment...
