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Iraq, Domeez refugee camp - Nurse Jessica Lovel
Airstrikes

Iraqis left without medical care as hospitals destroyed by repeated airstrikes

Intense shelling and aerial assaults in northern and central Iraq have hit hospitals and other medical facilities, some supported by MSF, depriving civilians of much needed medical care.
Press Release - 24 Jul 2014
 
HIV/Aids

Motsoaledi announces earlier ARV initiation in budget speech - MSF response

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced in his health budget vote speech delivered in Parliament on 23 July 2014 that South Africa will move to treating HIV-positive patients with anti-retrovirals (ARVs) at an earlier stage.
Press Release - 24 Jul 2014
 
Lake Tchad Crisis: Responding to the humanitarian consequences of violence  (Extreme North Cameroon)
Cholera

PLAY YOUR PART: Dr Vanessa Naidoo: On the frontlines with Doctors Without Borders

Galvanised by the images of the injured in the 2011 Libyan uprising, Dr Vanessa Naidoo decided to put her passion for people and medicine to good use; she volunteered with international medical and humanitarian aid organisation, Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
Latest News - 23 Jul 2014
 
Gaza, MSF Support to Al Shifa hospital
Airstrikes

Gaza Strip: Israel must stop bombing trapped civilians

Since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, the majority of the dead and wounded in Gaza are civilians and medical workers are also coming under fire.
Press Release - 21 Jul 2014
 
Violence

CAR: Mortality survey reveals extreme violence and high death tolls

A retrospective mortality study conducted by MSF among Central African refugees in Sido, Chad, reveals extreme levels of death during a violent crackdown against the Central African Republic’s (CAR) Muslim minority.
Press Release - 17 Jul 2014
 
HIV/Aids

Getting to Undetectable: Volume 5

This issue brief is the fifth in a series produced by MSF to equip policymakers, people living with HIV/AIDS, and communities with information on the products, costs, and operational strategies to help realise scale-up of viral load monitoring, which we believe is an essential tool, along with adherence support, to help as many people on ART as possible to reach and maintain viral suppression.
Briefing Document - 15 Jul 2014
 
Malnutrition

Child malnutrition rates skyrocket in South Sudan


Children in parts of South Sudan are suffering from shocking rates of malnutrition, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said today.
Press Release - 14 Jul 2014
 
HIV/Aids

Making a difference: Decentralisation of HIV/TB Care in Shiselweni

Eswatini is a small, sub-Saharan African country with a population of only 1.2 million people and one of the world’s highest rates of both HIV prevalence and new TB infections.
Report - 4 Jul 2014
 
Hepatitis

Extremely poor living conditions in Darfur camp

Extremely poor living conditions are putting at risk some 15,000 displaced victims of conflict in El Sereif camp in Sudan’s South Darfur state.
Press Release - 2 Jul 2014
 

Linezoid Fact Sheet

Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death in South Africa, and the country has a growing epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB).
Briefing Document - 1 Jul 2014