The end of Ebola; medical needs in Mosul; nutritional crisis in Chad; and other stories you might have missed this month Congolese health workers celebrate as the first frontline worker is vaccinated in Bikoro,
On 24 July 2018, the Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) officially declared the country’s Ebola epidemic over. The outbreak was declared on 8 May 2018, in northeast DRC. “Doctors Without
Virginia is a Malawian sex worker living in Beira, Mozambique. She works to support her nephew and nieces after their parents died from HIV. Virginia recently found out she was HIV positive but is afraid
RCEP trade deal could cut medicines lifeline for people in developing countries Bangkok/Geneva – As the sixteen countries negotiating Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement meet in Bangkok this week for another round of closed-door
US government exerting extreme pressure, threatening not to endorse declaration New York – Countries negotiating the final declaration text for the first-ever UN High-level Meeting on Tuberculosis in September are being put under significant pressure
One year since the battle between the Islamic State (IS) group and the Iraqi forces officially ended in Mosul, the health system is still in ruins and struggling to cope as thousands of people continue
Name : Designation : Miriam Alia, an MSF vaccination expert, has just returned from Equateur province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Miriam worked as a medical referent in the area of Itipo, the
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes two patent oppositions filed by Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) before the Indian patent office, challenging additional patent claims by US pharmaceutical corporation-Gilead Sciences for the hepatitis
Name : Designation : 1 July is observed in India as National Doctors’ Day. To mark the occasion we asked three MSFers how they became doctors, and what it means to be a doctor without
Emergency preparedness and response has evolved into a specialised area of intervention with dedicated international and local organisations, departments in Ministry of Health set up exclusively for this purpose, and the increasing use of technology
After a two-month emergency intervention in Equator Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), we begun handing over our Ebola response activities to the Congolese Ministry of Health and other non-governmental organisations in Mbandaka, Bikoro, Itipo,
Our doctors treat hundreds of people everyday while working in some of the toughest places in the world. They deliver lifesaving medical care in settings where they have to quickly adapt to different cultures, different
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