South Kivu, DRC: Two MSF Teams Attacked by Armed Men
Two teams with the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) were attacked in separate incidents in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Sunday, April 10. In one of the incidents, two MSF staff members sustained gunshot injuries.Press Release - 12 Apr 2011
Bahrain
Briefing Document - 7 Apr 2011
Health services paralyzed: Bahrain’s military crackdown on patients
Health facilities in Bahrain have been drawn into the center of the country’s current unrest and clashes between government and opposition protestors that began in February 2011.Briefing Document - 7 Apr 2011
Health services paralyzed: Bahrain’s military crackdown on patients
The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today condemned the use of medical facilities in Bahrain to crack down on protestors, which is making it impossible for those wounded during clashes to seek treatment.Briefing Document - 7 Apr 2011
MSF calls for end to Bahrain military crackdown on patients
The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today condemned the use of medical facilities in Bahrain to crack down on protestors, which is making it impossible for those wounded during clashes to seek treatment.Press Release - 7 Apr 2011
Violence
Press Release - 4 Apr 2011
Libya: MSF evacuates over 70 war-wounded by boat from Misrata
The international medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Doctors Without Borders (MSF) evacuated 71 patients by boat on Sunday 3 April from the Libyan city of Misrata, where ongoing violence has overwhelmed medical facilities with the injured.Press Release - 4 Apr 2011
Exclusion from Healthcare
Press Release - 4 Apr 2011
Ivory Coast: MSF unable to reach patients in war-torn Abidjan
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called today on the warring forces in Ivory Coast to take all necessary measures to ensure that people can safely reach medical facilities and that MSF medical teams can travel freely in the city of Abidjan and other parts of the country affected by fighting.Press Release - 4 Apr 2011
Malaria
Report - 31 Mar 2011
Reducing Malaria in Mali
Given the high burden of illness caused by malaria in Mali, in 2005 MSF offered to collaborate with Malian health authorities to introduce an improved management approach of using Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) and Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy (ACT).Report - 31 Mar 2011
Measles
Press Release - 28 Mar 2011
DR Congo: “Measles epidemic spiralling out of control” according to MSF
Over the past six months a measles epidemic has been sweeping through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is raising the alarm and calling for concerted action to halt the spread of the disease.Press Release - 28 Mar 2011
Drug-resistant TB
Briefing Document - 24 Mar 2011
Scaling up diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Khayelitsha
Since 2007, in response to the growing epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in Khayelitsha, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the City of Cape Town and the Provincial Government of the Western Cape are carrying out a pilot project to provide treatment to DR-TB patients at the primary care level.Briefing Document - 24 Mar 2011