Six years of conflict in Central African Republic has offered little respite to citizens. An MSF report outlines the extreme violence our teams have witnessed and the ineffectiveness of the UN’s peacekeeping mission in CAR, known as MINUSCA. Go to Source Date: February 19, 2019 at 18:08 Author: https://www.msf.org – joanna.keenan
Snakebite overwhelmingly affects the rural poor, such as migrant harvest workers in northern Ethiopia. Access to treatment remains difficult, due to high prices for antivenoms, and the unavailability of effective antivenom in remote places. Go to Source Date: February 14, 2019 at 21:00 Author: https://www.msf.org – joanna.keenan
MSF staff have treated hundreds of people with urgent needs living in a makeshift camp in far northwestern Cameroon after 35,000 fled violence in Rann, northeastern Nigeria. Go to Source Date: February 14, 2019 at 21:00 Author: https://www.msf.org – joanna.keenan
A measles epidemic was declared in March 2018 in the former province of Katanga, southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Nearly 12 months on, MSF teams are still responding to the outbreak, vaccinating and treating children. Go to Source Date: February 14, 2019 at 18:12 Author: https://www.msf.org – joanna.keenan
MSF has opened a new emergency room in Ad Dahi hospital, Hodeidah governorate, Yemen, where 100-year old Omar was recently our first patient. Go to Source Date: February 14, 2019 at 12:00 Author: https://www.msf.org – joanna.keenan
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started enrolling patients in clinical trials of four potential new treatments for Ebola in treatment centres in Katwa and Butembo, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. Go to Source Date: February 12, 2019 at 18:01 Author: https://www.msf.org – joanna.keenan
Staff from the El Salvador Ministry of Health were able, thanks to MSF’s presence, to cross the invisible borders imposed by violence that hinders access to health in some neighborhoods in the capital. Go to Source Date: February 11, 2019 at 18:01 Author: https://www.msf.org – joanna.keenan
Go to Source Date: February 11, 2019 at 18:01 Author: https://www.msf.org – joanna.keenan
In the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), people – particularly pregnant women – face challenges in accessing health care; insecurity and conflict in the region, long distances between villages and health centres, roads that become muddy rivers in the rainy season. Go to Source Date: February 11, 2019 […]Continue reading
MSF is supporting two survivors of DR-TB in challenging a patent in India on a new tuberculosis drug to increase affordable access. Should the patent challenge be successful, generic versions could be available four years earlier, saving thousands of lives. Go to Source Date: February 8, 2019 at 09:01 Author: https://www.msf.org – joanna.keenan
