Drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is on the rise in Southern Africa, fueled on the one hand by high HIV prevalence, and on the other by its highly contagious nature. The disease reaches deep into rural Zimbabwe where MSF runs a DR-TB project. Steps need to be taken urgently to curb transmission...
More than 315 cholera cases have been recorded in South Sudan since the Ministry of Health (MoH) officially declared an outbreak in the capital, Juba, on 15 May 2014. In other locations around the country there have been suspected cases that are awaiting laboratory confirmation. Médecins Sans...
Emiliano LUCERO is Argentinian and has just returned from Mexico after working there for a year as a medical coordinator. In this interview, he talks about the challenges the organisation faces in the country and the populations we are assisting there: transmigrants travelling from Central America...
Phumeza TISILE, co-author of the DR-TB Manifesto* and XDR-TB survivor, delivers urgent plea to World Health Assembly delegates on behalf of 50,000 supporters worldwide On the eve of the World Health Assembly adopting an ambitious 20-year global plan to address tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistant...
What responsibility does a doctor have to speak out for his patient, when he has done all that he can but others have not? In 1971, that question faced young medical volunteers from Europe working in one of Africa's most brutal civil wars. It's the opening sequence from the MSF documentary "From...
Abduction forces closure of three of MSF’s medical facilities providing care to 150,000 Syrians Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirms that its five staff held in Syria have been safely released. The organisation strongly condemns this abduction, which has forced MSF to permanently close one...
MSF releases report on shocking humanitarian situation in eastern DR Congo Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) is in the grip of an emergency. For two decades, persistent conflict in its eastern provinces and instability in other regions and a dysfunctional health system have led to recurrent...
In the six months since Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) hit the Philippines, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have provided care for emergency and everyday health problems in hospitals and mobile clinics, delivered clean water and helped to repair sewerage systems and health centres in some of...
