West Africa: MSF closes final Ebola projects for survivors
More than two and a half years after the Ebola outbreak officially began, MSF is now closing its last projects in West Africa dedicated to caring for people who survived the disease.Latest News - 24 Oct 2016
Ebola survivors: Healing through sharing
MSF psychiatrist Frédéric Gelly tells how, with the help of her granddaughter, Ebola survivor Massa came to terms with the trauma of her daughter’s death and learnt to live in the present.Patient and Staff Stories - 24 Oct 2016
Liberia: The psychological scars of Ebola
Two years after the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, survivors, as well as their families and health workers, are gradually rebuilding their lives. As MSF transfers its mental health services to the Liberian Ministry of Health, MSF psychiatrist Frédéric Gelly describes the process of psychological healing.Patient and Staff Stories - 24 Oct 2016
Drug-resistant TB
Videos and Photos - 21 Oct 2016
Through DR-TB patients’ eyes: The latest treatment for drug-resistant TB offers huge hope
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls on the Japanese pharmaceutical giant Otsuka to give greater access for thousands of South African patients to their drug delamanid, one of the most promising new drugs for treating drug-resistant TB (DR-TB).Videos and Photos - 21 Oct 2016
Haiti: “My mother and son were both in our home when the hurricane struck"
Lopineau, a village in the mountains around Jérémie is one of the many isolated communities severely affected by hurricane Matthew.- 21 Oct 2016
Haiti: "You can all too well imagine the suffering of people left without care for two weeks"
Like most villages in Grand Anse, hurricane Matthew left a trail of destruction.- 21 Oct 2016
Drug-resistant TB
- 21 Oct 2016
Sinethemba Kuse: "There is hope. I trusted the new medication with my life and it worked"
Through her grandmother’s love, and the help of new DR-TB drug delamanid, a 16-year-old from Khayelitsha has been given a second chance.- 21 Oct 2016
Haiti
Fieldworkers Stories - 21 Oct 2016
Talia Zongia: “This is not an adventure, it’s real life”
Meet MSF first-time Fieldworker Talia Zongia, who sees working with MSF as her opportunity to help make the world a better place, starting in hurricane devastated Haiti.Fieldworkers Stories - 21 Oct 2016
Drug-resistant TB
- 21 Oct 2016
Nonyanyiso Baloi: “I’m doing everything I couldn’t do before”
A combination of the newest DR-TB drugs, is providing huge hope for this mother of three.- 21 Oct 2016