MSF Survey: Gunfire is Main Cause of Death of People Fleeing Darfur

August 7, 2013

PARIS/NEW YORK, AUGUST 6, 2013—The majority of people who died while fleeing central Darfur, Sudan, earlier in the year perished as a result of violence, and mostly by gunfire, according to a retrospective mortality survey released today by the international...

South Sudan: 100,000 Displaced People in Jonglei Need Access to Medical Care

August 7, 2013

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN/NEW YORK, AUGUST 1, 2013 – An estimated 100,000 displaced people who fled violence in South Sudan's southern Jonglei State are still in dire need of access to emergency medical care, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without...

‘Mission’ One with MSF… Status: Accomplished

August 5, 2013

Name : Designation : Which is the most resilient? A bacteria? A virus? It’s an idea! Both tough and highly contagious, an idea, in my experience, is almost impossible to root out once it takes hold. © Devi Prasad Mohapatra...

Swaziland: First Group of MDR-TB Patients Celebrate End of Treatment

August 4, 2013

Name : Forty-eight-year-old Linda Vilakati is one of 55 patients who have just successfully completed treatment for MDR-TB in Swaziland. Swaziland 2013 © Zanele Zwane/MSF Designation : “I feel like jumping and dancing and shouting,” says Linda Vilakati. “It has...

India: Fighting Kala Azar in Bihar

August 3, 2013

Name : Designation : Visceral leishmaniasis is known worldwide as kala azar. Since 2007 MSF is implementing a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Bihar state, northern India. India 2011 © Anna Surinyach / MSF It is 10 in...

Mauritania: Significant needs remain for Malian refugees in Mbera camp

July 30, 2013

MSF teams in Mauritania are scaling up their medical activities in Mbéra camp to help the 75,000 Malian people who are stranded in the desert. MSF has been working in the camp since February 2012 and while the emergency phase...

Chronic Health Problems on the Rise in Syria as Health System Crumbles

July 25, 2013

Syrian doctor Jamal describes working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a converted school that now serves as an outpatient clinic. As the conflict in Syria wears on and people are forced to live in increasingly difficult conditions....

Diabetes, shrapnel wounds and newborn twins – An MSF hospital in Syria

July 25, 2013

As the number of people in need of urgent medical care in Syria continues to rise, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is running six hospitals, four health centers, and several mobile clinic programs inside the country. While these medical...

Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement Could Block Patient Access to Affordable Generic Medicines

July 14, 2013

KUALA LUMPUR/NEW YORK, JULY 15, 2013—As negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement move to Malaysia this week, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges negotiating countries to remove terms that could block people from accessing affordable medicines, choke off...

South Sudan: 20,000 Neglected After Fleeing Disputed Border Region

July 11, 2013

NEW YORK, JULY 8, 2013—More than 20,000 people are largely cut off from aid in South Sudan's Northern Bahr el Ghazal state after fleeing violence in the disputed border region with Sudan's South Darfur state, the international medical organization Doctors...

Central African Republic Abandoned to its Fate

July 9, 2013

BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC/NEW YORK, July 9, 2013—Three months after a coup in Central African Republic (CAR), the country remains gripped by a humanitarian emergency made worse as the international community looks on with indifference, the international medical humanitarian organization...

MSF Applauds New WHO Recommendations for Accelerating HIV Treatment in Developing Countries

July 8, 2013

KUALA LUMPUR/NEW YORK, JUNE 30, 2013—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today welcomed new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for HIV treatment and called for the improvements to be rapidly implemented, enabling people and programs...