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Cholera Treatment Centre

What is a Cholera Treatment Centre? Médecins Sans Frontières provides information about the key parts of a CTC, and what patients can expect in their treatment. ctc.msf.org
 
Miriam Kastzura, nurse, attends to a patient in the emergency room in Berberati.
Central African Republic

Berbérati, Central African Republic: “I had never seen anything like it before”

Interview with Miriam Kasztura, a nurse just returned from Berbérati, OCG's project in the southwest of CAR. Voices from the Field - 3 Jun 2014
 
Area reserved for the most serious patients at the Cholera Treatment Centre in Minova. Cholera is highly infectious so isolating patients is vital in order to prevent the disease from spreading.
Cholera

An interactive guide to an MSF cholera treatment centre

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
 
Since the beginning of the year, MSF is working in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, to help reduce the stigma faced by people living with HIV and improve their access to quality healthcare.
Meeting at the AID Association, one of the organisations working in Yemen to support people living with HIV.
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
 
Patients lie in a Médecins sans Frontières cholera treatment tent at a community health center in Bandim district, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Nov. 14, 2012. A cholera epidemic started in April in West Africa's densely-populated, low-lying coastal areas, killing hundreds of people in Sierra Leone and Guinea. By mid-November, more than 2,100 cholera cases had been reported in Guinea-Bissau.
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
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.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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