Posted on 2 June, 2011

Medical Innovations Webcast

MSF discuss how innovations introduced over the past 40 years have improved the organization’s medical humanitarian work. The panelists speak about how changes to drug regimens improved malaria treatment, how creative staffing solutions allowed MSF to treat more people living with HIV/AIDS, how ready-to-use-foods and new treatment models have revolutionized the fight against global malnutrition, and how medical innovations can address current and future challenges.

Pakistan: MSF Treats 58 Victims Of Suicide Attack In Hangu On May 26, a suicide attack killed 36 people and wounded approximately 60 more near a police station in the city of Hangu in northwestern Pakistan, just a few blocks from the hospital where...

Pakistan: MSF Treats 58 Victims Of Suicide Attack In Hangu

On May 26, a suicide attack killed 36 people and wounded approximately 60 more near a police station in the city of Hangu in northwestern Pakistan, just a few blocks from the hospital where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontierès (MSF) teams staff the emergency and surgery departments. Working with the hospital’s teams, MSF treated 58 victims.

Photo: Pakistan 2011 © Pierre Boyer/ MSF

Antiretroviral drugs have changed my life from negative to positive. I frequently used to get sick, and lost a lot of weight. Without these drugs I would not be on this planet. I have not had a single major health problem since I started taking them. They have saved my life.

Luis Júnior Mariquele, Mozambique

MSF is calling on world leaders to massively scale up HIV treatment at next weeks UN Summit on AIDS.
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Reducing Pressure on HIV Services By Task-Shifting

In Malawi, MSF is working with the local health system to shift responsibilities from doctors to nurses and lay workers, in order to reduce pressure on qualified health staff.

In this 5-part video-clip series, MSF demonstrates tools and models that could help make improved treatment accessible to many more. Between 8-10 June 2011, world leaders will meet in New York to decide on the future of the millions needing treatment urgently. By sharing this video, help us spread the word that there is NO EXCUSE for governments to leave 10 million people untreated! See www.doctorswithoutborders.org/stopthevirus for more info.