Kala azar or visceral leishmaniasis a neglected tropical disease and the second-largest parasitic killer in the world. India accounts for over 30% of the total kala azar cases in the world. 80% of these cases
On November 20, 2018, Libyan security forces conducted an operation to forcibly disembark 81 refugees and migrants remaining on the Panamean-flagged cargo ship Nivin, docked in the commercial port of Misrata, while an MSF team
MSF teams have treated more than 500 war-wounded people since the start of a new offensive launched by Saudi and Emirati (SELC)-backed forces against Ansar Allah troops on 1 November. MSF is extremely worried for
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the decision by Italian judicial authorities to request the seizure of the Aquarius for alleged anomalies in its disposal of on-board waste. It is a disproportionate and
MSF calls on Global Fund Board to make urgent changes to prevent drug stock-outs and quality issues Geneva – On the eve of the Board meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,
How does conflict damage national health? In 1918, as the First World War ended, a deadly new virus began to spread across Europe. The Spanish Flu quickly infected a third of the world’s population, killing
As the conflict intensifies on several frontlines across Yemen, an influx of people with war-related injuries are treated at facilities run by international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Hodeidah, Hajjah, Aden, Saada,
Amsterdam/ Sana’a – The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced today the closure of its humanitarian project in Ad Dhale governorate, southern Yemen. This has been an extremely difficult decision
Kinshasa – Between May 2017 and September 2018, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated 2,600 victims of sexual violence in the town of Kananga in Kasai Central province, Democratic
Cholera in Harare; high price of lifesaving TB drugs; emergency response in Central Sulawesi; and other stories you might have missed this month. A patient at a cholera treatment centre set up by MSF in
MSF operations desk manager Caroline Seguin discusses the recent warnings of famine in Yemen — a country that has been at war for almost four years. A month ago, Save the Children issued a press
“When I found out I had cholera, I was shocked and scared. I thought I was going to die. My thoughts went to my daughter,” says 25-year-old Atlas Murima from Mashonaland West province in northern
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