Among 208 refugee and asylum seeker patients, 60% had suicidal thoughts and 30% attempted suicide Canberra: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is today releasing the first independent medical data demonstrating the extreme mental health suffering
UNAIDS’ World AIDS Day 2018 report is selectively silent on persistently high AIDS mortality and looming treatment rationing in light of donor disengagement. This year’s UNAIDS report highlights the importance of viral load testing, a
MSF criticises pharma for dragging feet on developing HIV drugs for children Geneva – Ahead of a Vatican City meeting on scaling up HIV diagnosis and treatment for children, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors
Slow-motion healthcare emergency in Gaza; another attack on lifesaving search and rescue in the Mediterranean; escalation of fighting in Hodeidah; and other stories you might have missed this month Ataallah, 18, suffered gunshot wounds at
The huge numbers of patients with complex and serious gunshot wounds are overwhelming the healthcare system in Gaza, leaving thousands in danger of infection and disability. A slow-motion healthcare emergency is unfolding in Gaza as
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,
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