An interactive guide to an MSF cholera treatment centre Project Update - 3 Jun 2014

Khayelitsha, South Africa. Oct. 2003.
MSF clinic. MSF doctor Eric Goemare preparing ARV drugs.
Currently MSF treats 650 people with antiretroviral drugs, the largest cohort on treatment in the public sector in South Africa. The use of generic antiretroviral drugs in our clinics has been critical for the success of our programs, since it has proven that antiretroviral drugs can be done in an affordable manner.

HIV/AIDS

Clinical Mentorship of Nurse Initiated Antiretroviral Therapy in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A Quality of Care Assessment

Clinical Mentorship of Nurse Initiated Antiretroviral Therapy in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A Quality of Care Assessment Journal article - 2 Jun 2014

The culture: Bacteria from the collected specimens is grown on specific media before testing their sensitivity to a panel of antibiotics.

MSF has launched for the first time an Antibiotic Resistance Study in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan. A laboratory has been set up in the Boost Hospital where MSF works to carry out the study. The study started in January 2013.

Global

Calling on Europe to support operational research in low-income and middle-income countries

Calling on Europe to support operational research in low-income and middle-income countries Journal article - 2 Jun 2014

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.

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A Fair Shot

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been campaigning for lower vaccine prices since 2014. In 2016 after years of efforts and public campaigning Pfizer and GSK finally announced that they were reducing the price of the vaccine to slightly more than 9 US dollars per child for humanitarian organisations like MSF. While this is definitely a step in the right direction, it means that millions of children are still left unvaccinated in countries where their parents or governments can’t afford the vaccine. afairshot.org

A nurse dispensing TB medication inside Colony 3 TB prison.

Ukraine

MSF provides urgently needed medical supplies to hospitals receiving wounded in eastern Ukraine

MSF provides urgently needed medical supplies to hospitals receiving wounded in eastern Ukraine Project Update - 30 May 2014

MSF antenatal care, Mbera refugee camp, Mauritania, 2013 *** Local Caption *** Since January 2012, the Malian crisis has resulted in population movements, notably towards Mauritania. This 21 years woman is expecting her fourth child.

International Financial Report 2013

Annual Report - 30 May 2014

Yemen

Driving ARVs through a city under siege

Abdulbaset Alzamar, a Yemeni nurse working with HIV positive patients with MSF, talks about his experience. Voices from the Field - 30 May 2014

Cholera

Use of Vibrio cholerae Vaccine in an Outbreak in Guinea

Use of Vibrio cholerae Vaccine in an Outbreak in Guinea Journal article - 29 May 2014

PK5 is an area where traditionally Muslims and Christians live together. At the beginning of January, 30% of our patients were Muslim, but this has now decreased to only a few as they have fled or fear to go outside. Beginning of February, MSF start a mobile clinic to the large central mosque in Bangui (PK5 neighborhood), where about 2,000 displaced Muslims are living in fear and not daring to get to our clinic. MSF provides daily water supply on this site (20m3 per day) + PK 12 camps : MSF is carrying out mobile clinics in the PK12 camp, where there are approximately 1,500 displaced people.

Central African Republic

New Violence in Bangui - A Day in the General Hospital

A Day in the General Hospital Project Update - 29 May 2014

Guinea

Oral cholera vaccine highly effective during outbreak in Guinea

Vaccine Should Be Used to Help Control and Prevent Deadly Outbreaks Press Release - 28 May 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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An interactive guide to an MSF cholera treatment centre