MSF has launched a treatment and education programme to curb cholera in Haiti and is considered the deadliest cholera outbreak in the world, claiming 7000 lives
Low on medical staff and much-needed supplies in Libya, Médecins Sans Frontières is appealing to SA to send more doctors to the war-torn country.
The biggest refugee camp in the world is full, creating a humanitarian emergency that threatens thousands of malnourished children, MSF has warned.
If people knew their status, new infections would decrease. The question is how to achieve this.
Malaria drug breakthrough MSF calls for drug that could save 200 000 lives a year to be rolled out immediately
Médecins Sans Frontières reports on their success with decentralised multidrug-resistant tuberculosis care. With a new TB test and a community-based approach, they are able to get more patients on to treatment, sooner.
An active approach to identifying TB at the community level is needed in a country with one of the highest rates of the disease in the world.
<b>Phillippe Latour</b> travels to the Zinder region, in eastern Niger, to talk to communities most affected by bad harvests and malaria.
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/ 21 January 2011
A lack of basic healthcare means Médicins Sans Frontières in Southern Sudan treats many suffering from preventable illnesses.
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/ 10 December 2010
Migrants face a multitude of health issues in Jozi inner city.
The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Malaria and TB, the largest funder of Aids programmes worldwide, has an estimated shortfall of $3-billion to $5-billion
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/ 28 January 2008
Two Somalis and two foreign aid workers working for the Dutch arm of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were killed by a roadside bomb on Monday near the southern Somali port of Kismayu, witnesses said. Abdi Adan Duale, a nurse with MSF in Kismayu, confirmed the deaths.
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/ 6 December 2007
Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières said this week that Angolan soldiers have raped, beaten and tortured illegal Congolese migrant workers before deporting them across the border. The French humanitarian group said the rights abuses were occurring in the diamond-rich northern Angolan province of Luanda Norte.
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/ 10 October 2007
Conventional food aid is not enough to solve Africa’s malnutrition crisis, especially in nations wracked by conflict, an international health agency said on Wednesday. In a continent where thousands of young children suffer from acute malnutrition, the use of nutrient-dense ready-to-use foods needs urgent expansion, Médécins Sans Frontières (MSF) said.