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Medicine is still a victim of war—we desperately need new ideas
Category: MSF
Estrella Lasry: Tackling malaria prevention among the hardest to reach
Conflict is a major cause of decreased access to diagnosis and treatment in many remaining malaria hotspots, says Estrella Lasry. […]
Combatting NTDs: Much progress, but millions of patients lack access to care
Julien Potet on the next steps we need to take in the fight against neglected tropical diseases […]
Grania Brigden: Why tuberculosis is a research and development priority
TB is one of the world’s biggest killers and drug resistant cases are on the rise. Now more than ever we need to prioritise its funding, says Grania Brigden […]
What next for refugees after the demolition of the Calais camp?
By Frédérique Drogoul and Samuel Hanryon For most of 2016, whenever one of us visited the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) project in the refugee settlement in Calais, France, we would find new fences, new walls, and new areas where trees were cut down to allow police surveillance of residents. Surrounded by barriers on all sides, […]
Bev Stringer: Drug regulation in the age of antimicrobial resistance
The World Health Organization’s Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report 2016, released last week, is a sobering read. TB remains one of the world’s biggest killers, and cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are increasing. With this in mind, the theme of this week’s 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health “confronting resistance: fundamentals to innovation” is welcome […]
Jason Cone: There is no such a thing as “free” vaccines: Why MSF rejected Pfizer’s donation offer of pneumonia vaccines
I recently had the difficult task of telling Ian Read, Pfizer’s CEO, that Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is rejecting the company’s offer to donate a significant number of pneumonia vaccine (PCV) doses for the children we serve. This is not a decision that we took lightly, since our medical teams working in the field witness […]
Christopher Stokes: One year after Kunduz
Battlefields without doctors, in wars without limits Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is remembering one of the darkest moments in its history. On 3 October 2015, US airstrikes killed 42 people and destroyed the MSF trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. As we grieve the loss of our colleagues and patients, we are left with the question: […]
Jean-Hervé Bradol: Humanitarian emergency in northeast Nigeria
Several days ago I returned from Borno state in northeast Nigeria, where a catastrophic humanitarian emergency is quietly unfolding. I was there to assess the situation and help set up Médecins Sans Frontières’ aid activities in one of those towns—Bama, approximately 70 kilometers southeast of Maiduguri, the state capital. On arrival, we found high numbers […]
Mara Evans blogs from a maternity ward in South Sudan
The day was hot and quiet. Ward rounds had finished and the local midwife and I were waiting on a woman’s seventh baby. The other midwife had just examined our labouring patient and told me she was dilating well at seven centimetres. Generally, when a person is giving birth to their seventh baby things can […]