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Hepatitis C: The Hidden Epidemic

The treatment of people infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in developing countries has long been neglected.
 Briefing Document - 5 Nov 2015
 

Public Release of Initial MSF Internal Review

The following document is an initial MSF internal review of the events leading up to, during and in the immediate aftermath of the airstrikes on the MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.
 Report - 5 Nov 2015
 
Trauma Centre Kunduz
Afghanistan

Afghanistan - Close-up of a war torn country

The trauma centre in Kunduz is the only facility that provides care to victims of accidents and attacks in the North East of Afghanistan. As seen in the above video, a man visits his son who has a shrapnel wound on his leg. 
 Videos and Photos - 5 Nov 2015
 
Afghanistan

STAR: Victims of US attack on hospital recalled

The 13 Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staff and 10 patients killed in the Kunduz hospital attack in Afghanistan were remembered during a memorial service at Park Station in Joburg’s CBD.
 Latest News - 4 Nov 2015
 
Drug-resistant TB

First new TB drugs in half a century reach just 2% of people who need them

MSF calls for companies to make new drugs to treat drug-resistant TB available and affordable
 Press Release - 3 Nov 2015
 
Lesotho

Lesotho: Free maternal care has an impressive return on investment

The introduction of free deliveries at a hospital in Lesotho drastically reduced maternal deaths during labor and delivery, making the intervention a cheap and highly effective public health measure
 Press Release - 3 Nov 2015
 

At least 550 wounded in horrific market-bombing in Damascus besieged area

At least 70 people have been killed and 550 injured in an airstrike on a marketplace in the Douma neighbourhood near Damascus, Syria.
 Press Release - 2 Nov 2015
 
Tuberculosis

Decentralized diagnosis and treatment of DR-TB in Khayelitsha

Worldwide, drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a serious public health concern. In South Africa, tuberculosis (TB), including DR-TB, was determined to be the leading cause of death in 2012.
 Briefing Document - 2 Nov 2015
 
Afghanistan

MSF SA fieldworkers talk about their experience working in Kunduz, Afghanistan

Three MSF SA fieldworkers, Gilberta Jairos, Maureen Akeng'a and Dr Vanessa Naidoo, shared some of their memories from their time working in Kunduz, Afghanistan. 
 Fieldworkers Stories - 30 Oct 2015
 
HIV/Aids

Yemen: antiretroviral treatment beneath the bombs

In the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula, more than 1,300 people living with HIV/AIDS are receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, around half of them in the capital, Sana’a.
 Press Release - 29 Oct 2015