Kala Azar (leishmaniasis)
Press Release - 7 Nov 2014
India: MSF supports the introduction and roll-out of single-dose treatment for kala azar in Bihar State
From this day on, treatment for kala azar will only take two hours.Press Release - 7 Nov 2014
Online volunteers around the world map the way to better disaster response
A new project to map the world’s crisis areas so that aid agencies can respond faster and better to emergencies is being launched today in London.Press Release - 7 Nov 2014
Malaria
Press Release - 6 Nov 2014
South Sudan : Access to antimalarial treatments must be increased
The ongoing conflict in South Sudan affecting directly the North and the East of the country has diverted the attention from ongoing regular healthcare concerns like malaria epidemic which is affecting the West of the country.Press Release - 6 Nov 2014
Drug-resistant TB
Press Release - 30 Oct 2014
DR-TB patients, activists demand registering generic linezolid
Three drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients-turned-activists, including Phumeza Tisile, Andaleeb Rinquest and Morgan Scholtz will be joined by health advocates in handing over a letter to the Registrar of Medicines signed by over 100 clinicians, organisations and patients with DR-TB.Press Release - 30 Oct 2014
Ebola: MSF staff member in U.S. hospital
The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) confirmed today that one of its international staff members who recently returned from Guinea has tested positive for Ebola hemorrhagic fever.Press Release - 24 Oct 2014
Ebola: MSF urges immediate action on vaccines and treatments for frontline workers
MSF has urged that plans to get forthcoming Ebola vaccines and treatments to frontline workers must be rapidly implemented.Press Release - 24 Oct 2014
Norwegian aid worker recovers from Ebola
Medical doctor and MSF field worker Silje Lehne Michalsen was discharged from Oslo University Hospital, Ulleval. She was cared for the hemorrhagic fever Ebola after having contracted the disease in Sierra Leone in early October.Press Release - 20 Oct 2014
Access to medicines
Press Release - 20 Oct 2014
National Summit Demands Immediate Patent Law Reform to Bring Down Medicine Prices
50,000 people sign petition and open letter to support government action.Press Release - 20 Oct 2014
Out of step deadly implementation gaps in the TB response
A survey of TB diagnostic and treatment practices in eight countries.Briefing Document - 19 Oct 2014
Bombing
Press Release - 17 Oct 2014
Hundreds of wounded in Syria after crowded market is bombed
The bombing of a crowded market on 9 October caused hundreds of casualties in Erbin town in the East Ghouta suburban area near Damascus. Some 50,000 people have been under siege here for more than two years.Press Release - 17 Oct 2014