Brussels/Geneva, 22 March 2014 – An outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in southern Guinea has prompted the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to launch an emergency response. Twenty-four MSF doctors, nurses,
The Ministry of Health must act to stop drug resistance from spiralling New Delhi/Mumbai, March 21, 2014: Immediate action from the Indian government is needed to prevent the unregulated sale and inappropriate prescription of tuberculosis (TB)
Name : Designation : Kala azar or black fever (visceral leishmaniasis) is a tropical, parasitic disease caused by the bite of the sandfly. It is almost always fatal if left untreated. Below is the
Hajipur (Bihar), March 15, 2014: On the third annual Kala Azar Day, international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has emphasised on the need for scaling up awareness about kala azar
Violent clashes have forced more than 15,000 people to seek refuge in newly created camps in Melut county, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, in recent weeks. With thousands of people in need of humanitarian
Name : Designation : “I have endured the injections, the pills and the side effects, but how do I prepare my teenage daughter of what may lie ahead for her?” asks T Muan, who has
Three years of extremely violent war have ripped apart towns, villages, hospitals, clinics – everything that Syrians relied on for their existence. Throughout the country, families that can are fleeing from one place of refuge
Saturday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. On that day, and every other day, thousands of women worldwide will leave their homes to flee war or persecution. The fact that they are women makes their
Boston/New York, March 6, 2014—Two new studies released today by Epicentre,the research arm of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at CROI, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, point
Download the report: Everyday Emergency (PDF) Kinshasa, 3 March 2014 – Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is in the grip of an emergency. For two decades, persistent conflict in its eastern provinces and instability in
Darbhanga (Bihar), March 1, 2014 -The State Health Society, Bihar,today inaugurated a Malnutrition Intensive Care Unit (MICU) for treating the most complicated cases of severe acute malnutrition in children at the Darbhanga Medical College Hospital (DMCH)
Yangon, March 1, 2014- On February 27, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Holland received a written order from the Union Government of Myanmar to cease all operations in the country, which led to a full
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