Pakistan: Health structures and services in Bajaur must be respected
An explosion today at the gate of the District Headquarter Hospital in Khar, Bajaur Agency injured and killed several people, leading the international medical humanitarian association Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without...Read more...
Dr. Raghu Venugopal: The Kindness of Strangers: Helping Women With VVF in Chad
Part of the experience of working with Doctors Without Borders is not just work but also taking a break. The work in the project site is seven days a week most of the time, but then after two months or so, we get a break in the...Read more...
Looting and armed theft threaten humanitarian response
Médecins Sans Frontières, targeted by armed groups, calls on the new government to take responsibility and restore order in the Central African Republic. Many people remain without medical care due to the evacuation of...Read more...
In Syria, a midwife on-call 24/7
Cathy Janssens is a Belgian midwife, recently returned from a Médecins Sans Frontières assignment in Syria. I went to Syria to set up a mother-and-child health programme in one of the Médecins Sans Frontières hospitals in...Read more...
INTERVIEW-South Africa seeks to close drug patent loophole
Source: reuters // Reuters By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, April 22 (Reuters) - South Africa plans to overhaul its intellectual property laws to improve access to cheaper medicines by making it harder for pharmaceutical firms to...Read more...
Freja Beha Erichsen is Designing a Clothing Collection for Charity
Danish model has shown her support for the charity 'Doctors Without Borders' on several occasions in the past, even appealing on behalf of the charity to gain donations and she was seen wearing a 'Starved for Attention' t-shirt...Read more...
TransPacific Partnership Will Undermine Democracy, Empower Transnational Corporations
Our country's democratic values could be under threat if President Obama fast tracks the Trans-Pacific Partnership. On critical issues, the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) being negotiated in secret by the Obama...Read more...
Harare grapples with typhoid
Zimbabwe is fretting over the resurgence of typhoid, cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases, five years after a similar outbreak killed over 4 000 people.At least four people have died in the fresh typ...Read more...
No Food, No Shelter: Médecins Sans Frontières Calls for more assistance to populations displaced...
After weeks of flooding, the people of Tana Delta Region are still in urgent need of food, shelter, access to clean drinking water and medical services, says Médecins Sans Frontières. Médecins Sans Frontières is calling for...Read more...
Mali : Humanitarian access in a conflict zone
SocioLingo Africa This news item from IRIN News gives an interesting reflection on the difficulties faced by humanitarian organisations trying to get food and health supplies to people in the north of Mali during the recent...Read more...
Chad: More than 10,000 refugees arrived in Tissi within a few days
Roughly 25,000 refugees and returnees have been living in and around five villages in south-eastern Chad for nearly three months. But starting on April 4, an additional 10,000 began to arrive, having fled violent clashes in Um...Read more...
Surgeon returns from medical stint in Syria
GUELPH — Dr. Barbara Leblanc keeps her emotions in check. She’s a general surgeon, and needs a steady hand and unflappable nerves. But there were moments recently, as she treated badly burned children in a Médecins Sans...Read more...
Doctors Without Borders: Blogging From Afghanistan, Part 7
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing free medical care in the cities of Kabul and Kunduz, as well as in Helmand Province and Khost Province in Afghanistan. MSF accepts no government funding for...Read more...
Shortages of new one-a-day ARV pills in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, 19 April 2013 (IRIN) - Just days into the rollout of fixed-dose combination (FDC) antiretrovirals (ARVs) by South Africa's HIV treatment programme - the world's largest - activists are raising fears of drug shortagesRead more...
Linking geological and health sciences to assess childhood lead poisoning from artisanal gold...
In 2010 Médecins Sans Frontières discovered a lead poisoning outbreak linked to artisanal gold processing in northwestern Nigeria. The outbreak has killed ~400 young children and affected thousands more. The objective of the...Read more...
Briefing: Negotiating aid delivery in Mali’s conflict zones
BAMAKO/MOPTI/DAKAR, 18 April 2013 (IRIN) - Aid agencies managed to work in northern Mali throughout its occupation by Islamist militants in 2012 and the new complications triggered by the French-led military campaign earlier...Read more...
Syria’s forgotten casualties: The chronically ill
Syrians suffering from chronic illnesses such as cancers, heart disease and diabetes are among the forgotten victims of the two-year conflict, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada executive director Stephen Cornish, who...Read more...
Human Rights and Democracy: The 2012 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report - Libya
United Kingdom: Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Human Rights and Democracy: The 2012 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report - Libya, 15 April 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/516fb7c5f.html [accessed 18 April...Read more...
Red Cross turns to texting to save lives in Sierra Leone
Source: alertnet // Emma Batha Staff help a cholera patient in a treatment centre run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, during a serious cholera outbreak, August 23, 2012. REUTERS/Simon Akam By...Read more...
IOL: Desperate Malians need help - medics
London - Almost 74 000 Malians, who have been displaced by war and ethnic tension, are in need of urgent help in the desert of Mauritania, the Doctors without Borders (MSF) aid group said on Friday... MSF said that the...Read more...
Comment on Career advice (from people smarter than me) by venture tape
You can increase the number of affiliates that sign up to your reseller program. Business angels are individuals who invest their personal money in start-ups (Barringer & Ireland, 2008). This is in order for a company not to...Read more...
How Kids Cope With Occupation
Restrictions, harassment and violence are everyday matters for Palestinians living under occupation. That’s taking a terrible toll on the mental health of children, writes Maria Cristobal from MSF The Case For Academic...Read more...
Bleak future for Central African children
An estimated 42 percent of population does not even know where next meal is coming from.-Last modified: 11 Apr 2013 00:19-Families only come to Bangui's Children's Hospital when traditional medicines aren't working, and their...Read more...
Against all odds: Safe delivery in rural Darfur
Fifteen-year old Sameera* had already been in labour for two days when her family decided to leave the valleys and farming plots of Jurajeem to seek the help of a doctor. After a day’s journey they arrived in Um Baru, a town in...Read more...
Annual International Cultures Fair a success
Published: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Photo by Craig Towsley Prospectus News For the International Cultures Fair students on left, Arif Shad, in the middle, Haidev Amin, and on the right, Samreen Anwar display a large assortment...Read more...
Urgent call to tackle global drug-resistant Tuberculosis
Urgent call to tackle global drug-resistant tuberculosis Al Ain: Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been spreading fast all over the world, dictating the need for finding the best way to use new medicines for...Read more...
Doctors Without Borders: Chronically ill Syrians "benefited from a well functioning & advanced...
"... The aid system has not kept pace with the influx of refugees. Particularly vulnerable are the refugees living with chronic medical conditions, including cancer, whose treatments were interrupted when they fled Syria....Read more...
As refugee population in Iraq swells, Médecins Sans Frontières scales up emergency response
The registered number of refugees gathering at the Domeez camp, near the city of Dohuk in the Kurdish region of Iraq, is increasing daily. While 700 to 1,000 newcomers are registering every day the services provided in the camp...Read more...
COLUMN: Struggle for life saving drugs
People die from diseases like AIDS, TB, etc because life saving essential medicines are either too expensive, or not available because they are not seen as financially viable. When the Supreme Court of India rejected Novartis [...Read more...
Doctors Without Borders: A U.S. Surgeon Blogs from Congo, Part 4
David Lauter is a surgeon based near Seattle where he has practiced general surgery for 20 years. He is on his second assignment with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in Rutshuru, DRC. This is an entry...Read more...
