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Historic Opportunity to Tackle Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis at Risk
People Living with MDR-TB and Health Care Providers Call for Urgent Action
Two new drugs effective against multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) must be introduced to improve treatment regimens in countries with a high burden of the devastating disease, a group of people living with MDR-TB and the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced in a public manifesto issued today.
Afghanistan: Mobile Care in Kabul
The population of Kabul has tripled over the last 10 years. Some people arrive after fleeing conflict-torn areas for the relative safety of the capital, while others, pushed by poverty, are simply trying to make a living. Returnees from Pakistan and other provinces of Afghanistan have also made their way back to the city. For those living in makeshift settlements and camps, the harsh winter makes an already difficult situation even harder. In January 2013, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started running mobile clinics and nutritional screenings in six locations where hundreds of Afghans have settled.
CLICK to explore this interactive image: A guide to Syria two years after the conflict began
After two years of extremely violent conflict, the humanitarian situation in Syria is now catastrophic. View and share our interactive image to hear from our patients, see videos and photos and to meet MSF staff.
“A Humiliating Situation”: Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
Meet some of the more than 120,000 Syrian refugees living in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon while their country is at war. Families are living in camps, unfinished houses, and abandoned buildings; most are not getting adequate aid.
Afghanistan: A Hospital in Helmand
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting the regional Boost Hospital in Lashkargah, the capital of Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. Our aim is to provide free, life-saving medical care in all areas, including maternity, pediatrics, surgery and emergency room service.
MSF Field Report: Decreasing Child Mortality in South Sudan
“How Did You Know We Were Here?”
The refugees wanted to know Dr. Jacoby’s story. They wanted to know where she was from, why MSF had come, and how did MSF even know they were there?
Dr. Jacoby showed them the video that convinced her to go to Batil. It mad a major impact on them to realize that we were documenting their situation, and sharing it—“and that this information was enough to get people like me to come to Batil,” says Dr. Jacoby.
“I think that is really powerful. I think that knowing someone on the other side of the world saw what they’re up against, and cares enough to come, really helps people.”
MSF.TV - Delivering Aid in Armed Conflicts.
When working in war-torn areas, it’s often challenging to differentiate military aid and humanitarian aid. Intentions are blurred as military groups provide food and clinics for their own political gain. Where do armies end, and humanitarians begin? Watch this thought-provoking animated video to see how MSF is able to support clinics in warzones while remaining weapons-free.
South Sudan: Time Is Running Out
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is working in Doro and Jamam refugee camps in South Sudan. About 80,000 refugees have fled to the camps to escape ongoing violence in Blue Nile state, and MSF—working against the clock—is trying to help as many as possible before seasonal rains at the end of the month make the area inaccessible. Dr. Kirrily de Polnay talks about her work in the camps and warns that aid organizations need to urgently accelerate their activities if disaster is to be avoided
Phumeza is an XDR-TB patient and a blogger for the TB&ME project. This is her first video blog from her home at a TB patient facility in South Africa. Read Phumeza’s TB&ME blog here.
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patient and TB&ME blogger Athong talks from India about the stigma he faces living with the disease. Read Athong’s TB&ME blog here.
The pharmaceutical company Novartis continues to put profits above people by challenging a seven-year old Indian court ruling that, if overturned, would have a devastating effect on access to generic forms of essential medicines, including HIV medications, in the developing world.
Chasing Sleeping Sickness in Central Africa
An MSF team is traveling around isolated villages and regions in central African countries in order to offer treatment and screening for sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease spread by the tsetse fly that can be fatal if it is not treated.
The Long Battle Against TB
Though the number of TB patients is on the rise worldwide—MSF treated some 25,000 cases in 2010 alone—there is still too little access to care and too few new diagnostic tools and medicines.
Maternal Health: An Ongoing Emergency
MSF is providing maternal and emergency obstetric care in more than 30 countries worldwide, but in places where woman cannot access care, some 1,000 die every day due to complications in pregnancy and delivery.
Pakistan: Delivering in the Dark
The next video in MSF’s International Women’s Day series takes us to MSF’s birthing unit in Kuchlak, in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province, to which women travel long distances for crucial care they’d otherwise go without.
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Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization working in more than 60 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.
