Right now, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the few organizations on the ground responding to the world’s largest currently active outbreak of measles – which has already killed more than 6,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and continues to ravage different parts of the country. Nearly 75 per cent […]
Issue: Measles
Bangladesh: MSF tackles measles outbreak in Rohingya refugee camps
In a pink room decorated with white flowers at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) Kutupalong field hospital in Bangladesh, a woman lies curled around her sleeping child. It could be a peaceful scene, except for the intravenous lines snaking up from each child’s arm to a saline drip. This is an isolation ward and all […]
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