Press Release - 22 Jan 2015

MSF conducts a mobile clinic at Sintemaw IDP camp, Rakhine state, Myanmar. . C Aye Pyae Sone / MSF

MSF restarts basic medical activities in parts of Myanmar’s Rakhine State after nine-month absence

Successfully restarted primary health care services and emergency referrals for many living in Rakhine state, though significant needs remain unmet. Press Release - 20 Jan 2015

In New York, on Word Pneumonia Day 2015 (Nov 12), MSF volunteers attempted to deliver more than $17 million of fake cash - the equivalent of one day of profits from the pneumonia vaccines for Pfizer globally - to Pfizer's CEO Ian Read. The same day, MSF launched a global petition to ask Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to reduce the price of the pneumococcal vaccine to $5 dollars per child (for all three doses) in developing countries. Credit: Edwin Torres.

Access to medicines

MSF calls on GSK and Pfizer to slash pneumo vaccine price to $5 per child for poor countries ahead of donor meeting

MSF calls on drug companies to slash price of pneumococcal vaccine to US$5/child Press Release - 20 Jan 2015

Liberia

Oxford University begins trial of possible Ebola treatment at MSF Treatment Centre in Liberia

A clinical trial of a possible treatment for Ebola began on the 1st of January at ELWA 3, MSF’s Ebola Management Centre in Monrovia. Press Release - 7 Jan 2015

Kenya

MSF reviews patient allegations of coerced sterilisation

“MSF takes these allegations extremely seriously and is reviewing them carefully,” Press Release - 12 Dec 2014

Community health workers help distributing the anti-malaria drugs for 1.5 million people in Freetown.

Sierra Leone

1.5 million people in a country affected by Ebola receive drugs to prevent malaria

MSF has carried out the largest-ever distribution of antimalarials in Sierra Leone, alongside the Ministry of Health Press Release - 10 Dec 2014

MSF has worked in Kirkuk since 2010 and since July has rapidly increased its assistance to the displaced population, operating mobile clinics in six locations throughout the city, focusing on chronic disease and maternal and pediatric care. Since July, MSF teams provided 5.821 medical consultations. MSF is also distributing 25,000 blankets and more than 3,700 kits with hygiene items to displaced families in Kirkuk.

Iraq

Thousands of displaced in Kirkuk lacking essential aid

Thousands fleeing violence are in desperate need of care. Press Release - 4 Dec 2014

Garage shelter for refugees in Leros island,Greece. Coast Guard station yard

Mediterranean migration

EU and Greece turn their backs on refugees arriving at Greek islands

Refugees are subjected to a dysfunctional reception system and inhumane living conditions Press Release - 3 Dec 2014

MSF staff in Guinea paint their response to support messages sent to Ebola missions from around the world. Numerous messages and photos were sent in or posted on social media, from other MSF missions and sections, donors and MSF supporters. This is a regular source of motivation for staff, but also a way for national emergency staff to experience an MSF associative spirit.

The photo was taken in In Donka Ebola case management centre (CMC). For safety reasons, the paint was applied to gloves, and only a limited number of persons fit in one image. The group photos include medical, watsan and health promotion staff members.

Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

International Ebola response slow and piecemeal, risks becoming a ‘double failure’, says MSF

The international response to Ebola in West Africa has so far been patchy and slow, and has left local people, national governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to do most of the practical, hands-on work. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today that the international community must not fail twice with a response that is slow in the first instance and ill-adapted later on. Press Release - 2 Dec 2014

Kala azar

Increased access to diagnosis and treatment of HIV-VL co-infection is imperative for eliminating kala azar

Fast-tracked development of integrated kala azar and HIV guidelines needed Press Release - 1 Dec 2014

Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.

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