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20 June 2013
| Press release
DURBAN – The medical organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today released new evidence at the 6th South African AIDS Conference in Durban on early success using the high-strength antibiotic, linezolid as part of a treatment regimen for patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). This is some of the first clinical data from both an African and primary care context suggesting that linezolid is safe and effective for treating patients with XDR-TB...
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19 June 2013
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The Chronic Crisis: Essential drug stock-outs risk unnecessary death and drug resistance in South AfricaRead the press release: 5 Months Later: Thousands of HIV & TB patients’ lives remain at risk as health department dithers on resolving Eastern Cape drug stock-outs In this update on drug supply in the Eastern Cape and other provinces, Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP), Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and SECTION27 show that...
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18 June 2013
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An outbreak of malaria in Lulingu (South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo) is affecting large numbers of people, prompting an emergency response by international medical organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), whose teams have treated more than 2,500 people since the begining of May.Lulingu's main hospital has become the epicentre of an outbreak of severe malaria. Photo: Jose Sanchez Local authorities initially feared they were facing an outbreak of meningitis,...
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18 June 2013
| Press release
5 Months Later: Thousands of HIV & TB patients’ lives remain at risk as health department dithers on resolving Eastern Cape drug stock-outsFollow-up report by Rural Health Advocacy Project, MSF, TAC and SECTION27 demands urgent action to resolve scourge of widespread stock-outs; a critical challenge for 6th SA AIDS ConferenceDURBAN – Thousands of people living with HIV and TB still risk death and drug-resistance in the Eastern Cape due to ongoing interruptions to...
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18 June 2013
| Press release
Johannesburg - A measles epidemic is sweeping through districts of northern Syria, with up to 7,000 known cases, an indication that humanitarian needs are increasing and the country’s healthcare system is in a state of collapse after more than two years of civil war. Teams from the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have vaccinated more than 75,000 children in the provinces of Aleppo, Ar-Raqqah and Idlib in an effort to stem the epidemic amongst...
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14 June 2013
| Press release
Thousands At-Risk of Death as Rainy and Malaria Season ApproachesJUBA –An estimated 120,000 people have fled fighting in and around the main towns in Pibor County in South Sudan’s Jonglei state and are now hiding in unsafe and malaria-infested swamps without access to safe drinking water, food, or medical care, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The government of South Sudan must allow immediate...
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14 June 2013
| MSF in the media
Dr Vanessa Naidoo, from Cape Town, has been selected as one of the Mail and Guardian's annual 200 Young South Africans for her work with MSF as an emergency doctor in Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Sudan and most recently Syria.Read full article below.
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13 June 2013
| Article
MSF doctor talks about saving lives in the midst of a rebel uprising in the CARDr Tim Schoenfeld took part in an MSF emergency response project in the Central African Republic, spending four weeks in Sibut, a town on the frontline between government forces and the rebel coalition that overthrew the president. Tim and nine other MSF staffers provided emergency care to pregnant women, children under five and patients in critical condition at a local hospital.MSF...
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13 June 2013
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Lira and Phumeza TisileBefore Phumeza Tisile, aged 22 years, became deaf as a side effect of treatment for multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), Lira was one of her favourite local singers. Phumeza can still hear the melody of one of Lira’s trademark songs, “Feel Good,” in her head, she says. So, when Phumeza, an MSF patient-turned- activist, invited Lira to her home in Khayelitsha, Lira couldn’t resist.In April Lira and Swedish jazz-funk saxophonist friend,...
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13 June 2013
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Chenai MathabireMSF fieldworker and nurse, Chenai Mathabire, began working for MSF in her hometown of Harare. In May, she arrived back from her second international MSF assignment in Bo, Sierra Leone where she’s helped manage MSF’s ambulance service. This service is just one of the interventions that have helped MSF teams lower maternal mortality figures in the district by 61 percent.“I arrived in rainy season in Sierra Leone when MSF was working to contain...
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