Twenty nine people found dead and 246 rescued by MSF
Another horrific day in Central Mediterranean with the Bourbon Argos: 246 people were finally rescued, but 29 dead bodies were found at the bottom of one of the two dinghies.Press Release - 26 Oct 2016
Drug-resistant TB
- 26 Oct 2016
Nischaya: "New drugs are really the last life-line"
Renewed hope for 18 year old in Mumbai, India.- 26 Oct 2016
Drug-resistant TB
Briefing Document - 25 Oct 2016
Delamanid in South Africa
South Africa has one of the highest burdens of TB and DR-TB in the world. In 2015, almost 300,000 people were diagnosed with TB in South Africa, including 20,000 with some form of DR-TB.Briefing Document - 25 Oct 2016
Drug-resistant TB
Press Release - 25 Oct 2016
MSF urges Japanese pharmaceutical giant to widen access to key drug for drug-resistant TB in South Africa.
A slow start to a national clinical access programme, and Otsuka’s delays in registering delamanid with the Medicines Control Council are limiting treatment to a select few.Press Release - 25 Oct 2016
Tuberculosis
Latest News - 25 Oct 2016
CAPE TIMES: Patent need for pharma reform
Treatment Action Campaign's Marcus Low discusses the Draft National Policy on Intellectual Property.Latest News - 25 Oct 2016
West Africa: Ebola closure
Two and a half years after the Ebola outbreak officially began, MSF is now closing its last projects dedicated to caring for survivors in West Africa. Whilst these projects are coming to an end, MSF continues to provide healthcare in Guinea, Sierra Leone and LiberiaPatient and Staff Stories - 24 Oct 2016
West Africa: MSF closes final Ebola projects for survivors
More than two and a half years after the Ebola outbreak officially began, MSF is now closing its last projects in West Africa dedicated to caring for people who survived the disease.Latest News - 24 Oct 2016
Ebola survivors: Healing through sharing
MSF psychiatrist Frédéric Gelly tells how, with the help of her granddaughter, Ebola survivor Massa came to terms with the trauma of her daughter’s death and learnt to live in the present.Patient and Staff Stories - 24 Oct 2016
Liberia: The psychological scars of Ebola
Two years after the peak of the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, survivors, as well as their families and health workers, are gradually rebuilding their lives. As MSF transfers its mental health services to the Liberian Ministry of Health, MSF psychiatrist Frédéric Gelly describes the process of psychological healing.Patient and Staff Stories - 24 Oct 2016
Drug-resistant TB
Videos and Photos - 21 Oct 2016
Through DR-TB patients’ eyes: The latest treatment for drug-resistant TB offers huge hope
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls on the Japanese pharmaceutical giant Otsuka to give greater access for thousands of South African patients to their drug delamanid, one of the most promising new drugs for treating drug-resistant TB (DR-TB).Videos and Photos - 21 Oct 2016