
MSF supports Haitian health authorities in cholera vaccination
December 20, 2022Port-au-Prince, 20 December 2022 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Haiti are supporting the cholera vaccination campaign launched by the national health authorities. This campaign is the latest effort in response to the resurgence of the disease, which has...
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DRC: Half a million displaced and without clean drinking water
June 3, 2021Hundreds of thousands of people have been left displaced, and over half a million in the city of Goma have been left without access to clean drinking water, following the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). While...
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Cholera
February 6, 2019Although easy to prevent and treat, cholera affects up to 4 million people worldwide per year, resulting in up to 140,000 deaths. Caused by a water-borne bacterial infection, cholera is transmitted through contaminated food or water, or through contact with...
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An Indian doctor reflects on a year spent in Yemen
December 26, 2017Nishith Kumar, a medical doctor from Bihar, recently returned from Yemen, a country ravaged by two and a half years of war. In this interview, he explains the impact it has had on patients, and how MSF teams dealt with...
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