Bangui/Paris, 11/11/14. On 7 November a transport truck with medical supplies and clearly identified as operating for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was stopped and held captive by an armed group on the route linking Paoua
Hello, my name is Craig Spencer. I am a physician and aid worker for Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF. I’m proud to be among the ranks of more than 3,300 Doctors Without Borders responding
NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 11, 2014 – A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) physician who was infected with Ebola Virus Disease was released today from HHC Bellevue Hospital Center. Dr. Craig Spencer contracted the virus
7 November 2014 – A new project to map the world’s crisis areas so that aid agencies can respond faster and better to emergencies is being launched today in London. At the Missing Maps event,
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been in the news quite a lot recently in stories about its Ebola response and the people carrying it out on the ground. We have been addressing and
Tensions have increased in the hills to the east of Jerusalem where some 2,500 Palestinian Bedouins live. The tents and metal shacks where they live and keep their animals are being demolished by Israeli officials
Level of primary transmission alarming Mumbai, 27 October 2014: Ahead of the Union World Conference on Lung Health in Barcelona, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) releases a new study today which points to
Sunday, the 21st of September is a day I will never forget in my life. I was out working with MSF as a health promotion officer, visiting villages and telling people about Ebola: how to
Name : Designation : “The only time I feel visible and cared for is when I am at this clinic. At all other times, I feel invisible” said Mallamma (name changed for confidentiality), one of
Brussels – 16 October 2014 – The bombing of a crowded market on 9 October caused hundreds of casualties in Erbin town in the East Ghouta suburban area near Damascus. Some 50,000 people have been
Brussels, 15th October 2014 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has taken the very difficult decision to temporarily suspend medical activities at Gondama Referral Centre (GRC), near Bo, because of the strain the current response to
Name : Designation : Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) can take upto 14,600 pills and many painful injections to be cured. From diagnosis to the side effects, the two years of treatment takes an emotional and physical
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