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
European governments must come to their senses and end policies which trap extremely vulnerable people in Libya or leave them to die at sea, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), as governments gather for
Name : Designation : Story of Marie-Vincent, an ebola survivor “At first, we didn’t believe in Ebola,” says Marie-Vincent, a woman recently discharged from MSF’s Ebola treatment centre (ETC) in Bikoro, Democratic Republic of Congo
A surge in airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Hassakeh and Deir ez-Zor governorates, in northeast Syria, is bringing in an increasing number of patients to the MSF-supported hospital in Hassakeh. In the 10
Amsterdam/Valencia, 17 June 2018 – Following this week’s political stand-off over the fate of people rescued in the Mediterranean, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces Italy’s closure of its ports
Kala azar Elimination is not possible without addressing the emerging issue of kala azar-HIV coinfection. As a disease that affects the most vulnerable and poorest in society, the deep-rooted stigma and the inadequate state of
Summary Since the Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was declared on 8 May 2018, 60 people who presented symptoms of haemorrhagic fever, including 37 confirmed Ebola cases and 27 deaths (of whom 13 were confirmed as Ebola)*, have been
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urging European Member States to facilitate the immediate disembarkation of 629 people rescued over the weekend in the Mediterranean and now on board the Aquarius, a dedicated search
Name : Designation : Paul Jawor, an MSF water and sanitation expert, has just returned from Equateur province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Paul was working in and around the remote village of
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