Somalia: The deadly toll of healthcare access challenges for women and children
August 9, 2024Many women and children in Baidoa, Somalia, have to undertake journeys of hundreds of miles to reach medical facilities. To make matters worse, insecurity and violence often lead to delays that exacerbate health conditions and tragically, sometimes even lead to...
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Danaher continues to charge exorbitant prices for lifesaving medical tests despite urgent demands for price reductions by several Ministries of Health
June 18, 2024Geneva, 17 June 2024 - In September 2023, the US corporation Danaher, which owns diagnostics maker Cepheid, announced a price reduction of the primary GeneXpert test used to diagnose tuberculosis (TB), from US$9.98 to $7.97, amid pressure from TB activists....
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Lack of hepatitis C care means most Rohingya refugees cannot be cured amid alarming prevalence rates in camps in Bangladesh
June 13, 2024A study carried out by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) indicates that almost 20 per cent of the Rohingya refugees tested in the Cox's Bazar camps in Bangladesh have an active hepatitis C infection.A blood-borne virus, hepatitis C is a disease...
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Afghanistan: Patients’ stories from MSF-supported Mazar-i-Sharif Regional Hospital in the Balkh Province
June 11, 2024Public healthcare facilities, especially tertiary hospitals, such as the MSF-supported Mazar-i-Sharif Regional Hospital in the Balkh province, are struggling to cover essential running costs like staff salaries, medicines and medical supplies, fuel, and oxygen supply, due to the lack of...
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Marking 40 years of humanitarian medical action in Mozambique: Médecins Sans Frontières hosts panel discussion in Maputo
June 7, 2024Maputo, Mozambique – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will tomorrow host a panel discussion to reflect on its medical and humanitarian work for the past 40 years in Mozambique and discuss its challenges. Since 1984, MSF has been collaborating...
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Syria: “Where growing medical needs converge with shrinking funds”
May 24, 2024Amman, Brussels – International financial support to the health system in northern Syria is in decline. The medical needs in the region far exceed the available medical services, with Syrian people bearing the greatest burden due to limited support and...
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Afghanistan: Measles surge necessitates strengthening of prevention measures
May 20, 2024Ten-month-old Bilal lies in bed at Mazar-i-Sharif regional hospital, in Afghanistan’s Balkh province, where he is being treated for measles and pneumonia, watched over by his mother Zakia. When Bilal fell ill with a fever, Zakia took him to one privately-run...
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Malawi: “In 2001, when the counsellor said ART could prolong my life, I thought it would be two to three years but here I am, 22 years later”
August 7, 2023In July 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) closed the chapter on one of its longest standing projects in Malawi, launched some 25 years ago in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The MSF Saturday Teen Club in Chiradzulu on 7 March 2020...
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South Sudan: Communities prepare for renewed flooding ahead of rainy season
August 1, 2023In a parched landscape, an MSF tractor roars as it approaches a small village in Dentiuk, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. It is towing a trailer to which a creaking wooden canoe is strapped. “Are you sure we are...
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Extreme violence in Las Anod forces MSF to close activities
July 25, 2023Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reached the difficult decision to withdraw our services from Las Anod General Hospital, Sool region, located within the internationally-recognised borders of Somalia,* due to increased volatility and repeated security incidents which have impacted the safe...
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Khartoum: Aid in jeopardy as MSF staff face beatings, death threats and theft
July 21, 2023Khartoum/Paris, 21 July, 2023 – On the afternoon of July 20, four MSF staff as well as four truck drivers and a team of 10 daily workers were stopped by a group of armed men while transporting medical supplies to...
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DRC: Emergency response against cholera in the territory of Rutshuru
July 20, 2023Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders teams have been mobilised urgently in the territory of Rutshuru, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in response to an outbreak of suspected cases of cholera, particularly in the...
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