A hospital operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was directly targeted in an aerial bombing in Sudan on 20 January, forcing the suspension of medical activities, MSF announced today. The hospital, located in the Nuba Mountains village of Frandala in the South Kordofan region of Sudan was...
Tens of thousands of people in Myanmar's Rakhine state are able to access basic healthcare and emergency referral from Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) for the first time in over nine months. Following instructions to MSF Holland to stop last February, these primary health...
The conflict that erupted in South Sudan little more than a year ago has left people more vulnerable to a deadly tropical disease known as kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis). The risk of infection increases as people are displaced by fighting into areas where the disease is prevalent and...
New MSF report reveals countries struggle with skyrocketing vaccine prices amidst market shrouded in secrecy Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer to slash the price of the pneumococcal vaccine to US$5 per child in developing...
In the wake of a major attack carried out by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram on the town of Baga, in northern Nigeria, a team from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is assisting survivors who have fled to the city of Maiduguri. A large number of people are believed to have been killed in the...
In late November, Aminata Sankoh's mother started to fall ill. Living on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Aminata heard warnings about Ebola on the radio. But she didn't hesitate to care for her mother as she grew progressively sicker over the next seven days. By the end of the week,...
A clinical trial of a possible treatment for Ebola began on 1 st January at ELWA 3, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)'s Ebola Management Centre in Monrovia, Liberia. Led by Oxford University, the trial aims to determine if the anti-viral drug brincidofovir is a safe and effective treatment for Ebola...
