Indian generic companies should reject Gilead’s controversial hepatitis C programme Programme could compromise patient treatment and privacy rights Ahead of a meeting in Jaipur, India this week between US pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences and several Indian companies which have entered into an...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today releases a critical analysis of the Ebola epidemic in west Africa over the past year, revealing the shortcomings of the global response to the crisis and warning that the outbreak, despite an overall decline in cases, is not yet over. The report, Pushed to the...
A chlorine attack in the north west of Syria on 16th March has killed six people and poisoned a further 70 people, according to reports by Syrian doctors working in the region who were contacted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Helicopters were seen dropping barrels, which released a suffocating...
Although Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders is currently able to run six health facilities in the north of Syria, in most of the country the organization cannot have teams working directly on the ground providing hands-on medical care. But in order to ensure some continuity of...
As the war in Syria enters its fifth year, desperately-needed aid is failing to reach millions of people who are trapped by the conflict, and a massive increase in medical assistance is required, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said Wednesday. “Four years since the start of the Syrian conflict, the...
By Dr. Joanne Liu As Syria enters its fifth year of conflict , the war continues to be defined by brutal violence that does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, and half the population has fled either within Syria or into neighboring...
A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team managed to reach Debaltseve on 21 February, three days after the rebels took the city in Eastern Ukraine. Olivier Antonin, MSF’s emergency coordinator, was part of the team that provided medical aid and evaluated the medical needs there. He describes what he...
Initial results of a clinical trial of the experimental drug favipiravir suggest that it can reduce mortality among patients with low levels of the Ebola virus in their blood, but is ineffective for patients with high viral loads who are very sick with the disease. The ongoing clinical trial, led...
The industrial city of Gorlovka in eastern Ukraine has been under constant shelling, its hospitals are overwhelmed with the wounded, and medical supplies have run out, leaving doctors to stitch up patients with fishing line. MSF surgeon Dr Michael Roesch is supporting the Ukrainian surgical team in...
Djamilou from Central African Republic (CAR) has been working as a logistician in Niger. Djamilou came to Paris between assignments in Africa for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He told us her story. He spoke of the violence and the plight of his family scattered among three different countries...
