The little-known but life-threatening disease noma is one step closer towards being recognised as a neglected tropical disease (NTD) after international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported Nigeria’s request to the World Health Organization (WHO) to add it to its list of NTDs. After a three-year international advocacy and communication campaign, a […]
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It has been 12 days since the last confirmed Ebola case, a stillborn baby of a mother who survived the disease, was reported in Uganda. MSF has been responding to the outbreak of the Sudan Ebola virus variant since its declaration on Sept. 20 by building Ebola treatment centres and treatment units, providing support to the […]
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An alarming situation is unfolding in southeast Madagascar, where malnutrition is on the rise in rural communities. People in the southeastern Ikongo district face acute food shortages after harvests were destroyed in last year’s cyclones. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis of January 2023 shows that more than a quarter of the […]
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Hospital admissions of children suffering from severe malnutrition have spiked in Dagahaley, one of three refugee camps in the Dadaab refugee complex, amid worsening humanitarian conditions in the overcrowded camps. In 2022, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated a record 12,007 patients – an overwhelming majority of whom are children – in its […]
On Thursday 26 January, armed men entered the Médecins Sans Frontières-supported Raoul Pierre Louis public hospital in Carrefour, a district located to the west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The men dragged a patient out of the emergency room and killed him outside the hospital. It is the second time in six months that this hospital […]
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Around 30,000 migrants gather daily in Tapachula (Chiapas). They are a ‘floating population’, since thousands of people come in through this entry point every day in southern Mexico, and many others leave for the northern border. The migrants here are not hard to spot, gathering in squares and parks, in exchange offices or at […]
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Eight years into the conflict, the war in Yemen is impacting every area of life for people in the district of Ad Dahi. Canadian doctor Matt Cloutier is part of a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team there. “It was my first week working as an ER doctor in a rural hospital in […]
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By Julien Potet, Senior Advisor on Tropical Diseases and Neglected Diseases for MSF’s Access Campaign Some diseases are more neglected than others. This is the case with snakebites, which are responsible for more than 100,000 deaths every year worldwide. A new MSF publication in Toxicon X highlights the resources needed to improve the management of […]
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Since 2018, MSF has been supporting a series of eye camps in Somalia, providing treatment and surgery for a range of debilitating eye conditions. Ranging from cataract surgery to treatment for eye diseases to prescribing glasses, the camps provide a one-stop shop for essential eye healthcare. “Eye problems, like many other health issues in […]
Read More… from Somalia: Lifechanging work restoring eyesight and vision at MSF eye camps
Findings that prompted WHO to update global DR-TB treatment guidelines now published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that a much shorter treatment regimen for drug-resistant TB is safer and cured almost 90 per cent of patients. A new all-oral, six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis […]