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Landmark Clinical Trial Redefines Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Options

Posted on 15 November 2023 (15 November 2023) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

Clinical trial results presented for the first time today at the Union World Conference on Lung Health revealed evidence to support the use of four new, improved regimens to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis or rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB). The team—led by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Partners In Health (PIH), and Interactive Research and Development […]

Sudan: MSF says unconscionable surgical ban in Khartoum must be immediately reversed

Posted on 14 November 2023 (16 November 2023) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

An unconscionable ban that is preventing life-saving surgical supplies from being transported to hospitals in RSF-controlled areas of Khartoum is putting the lives of hundreds of people – including women and children – at risk and must be immediately reversed, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Implemented since early September, and communicated to MSF […]

South Sudan: Unshattered hope in the face of adversities

Posted on 14 November 2023 (14 November 2023) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

Conflict and hostilities in neighbouring Uganda between warring parties propelled MSF to launch its first project in Yei, Central Equatoria. In 1983, a dedicated MSF team including medical and support staff from then southern Sudan and other countries provided emergency medical care to host communities and refugees who were fleeing Uganda civil unrest. A region […]

Gaza: Patients and medical staff trapped in hospitals under fire

Posted on 11 November 2023 (20 November 2023) by jessica

ATTACKS MUST STOP NOW Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza have been under relentless bombardment. Al-Shifa hospital complex, the biggest health facility where MSF staff are still working, has been hit several times, including the maternity and outpatient departments, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. The hostilities around the hospital have not stopped. […]

Jenin: MSF condemns attacks on healthcare facilities

Posted on 9 November 2023 (20 November 2023) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

Since Oct. 7 we have seen a dramatic increase in violence from Israeli forces in Jenin. Since then, our teams have treated over 30 patients with gunshot and blast wounds. Today, there has been a surge in violence, with widespread bombing and shooting – this morning leaflets were dropped on Jenin refugee camp, telling residents […]

MSF open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: Canada must call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Posted on 9 November 2023 (23 November 2023) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

MSF Canada Executive Director Joseph Belliveau has written to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging him to do everything in his power to bring about an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, I am writing to you on behalf of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to urgently request that the Canadian Government do everything within […]

Israeli forces and settlers ramp up violence against Palestinians in West Bank

Posted on 9 November 2023 (20 November 2023) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

It’s 2:30 a.m. and doctors are huddling outside the entrance to Jenin hospital in the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territories. A brief lull in the ricocheting gunfire is followed by the sound of men shouting and the screeching of tyres as a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw, or tuk-tuk, turns into the gates of the hospital. […]

Sudan crisis: More people forced to flee to Chad as fighting intensifies across Darfur

Posted on 8 November 2023 (8 November 2023) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

Following increased fighting in El Geneina in Sudan’s West Darfur, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams operating across the border in eastern Chad have seen an immediate and major increase in the number of people arriving in the region. 36 wounded people were received by MSF teams over the past weekend alone. Refugees coming […]

MSF mourns the killing of our colleague in Gaza

Posted on 7 November 2023 (20 November 2023) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

Today, we are mourning the loss of one of our team members in Gaza, Mohammed Al Ahel, who was killed along with several members of his family on Nov. 6. Mohammed had been a laboratory technician for MSF for over two years and was at his home in Al Shate Refugee Camp when the area […]

MSF calls on governments to use recent TB wins to beat back deadly infectious disease

Posted on 7 November 2023 (8 November 2023) by Siena Domaradzki-Kim

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2023 Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report released today shows that the estimated global incidence of TB in 2022 remains unacceptably high, including for the more difficult to treat form of this disease, drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). With an estimated 1.3 million people having died from TB in 2022, and still only about […]