MSF/Médecins Sans Frontières [to 5 December 2015]
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Press release
MSF and Greenpeace Launch Rescue Operations in the Aegean Sea
December 03, 2015
Joint @MSF_Sea @Greenpeace operations have begun in Aegean—Gripping footage of newborn rescued from capsizing boat pic.twitter.com/SUnvhQp7hV
— Doctors w/o Borders (@MSF_USA) December 3, 2015
Press release
Yemen: Nine Wounded in Saudi-Led Coalition Airstrike on MSF Clinic in Taiz
December 03, 2015
AMSTERDAM/TAIZ, YEMEN—Airstrikes carried out yesterday by the Saudi-led coalition hit a clinic in southern Yemen run by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and wounded nine people, including two MSF staff members.
Press release
Outdated Policies and Practices Contributing to Rise of Drug-Resistant TB Must End
December 02, 2015
GENEVA/CAPE TOWN—Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Stop TB Partnership today released the second edition of the Out of Step report, a 24-country survey of policies and practices used today to guide the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB).
Press release
Syria: Series of Deadly Bombings Partially Destroys MSF-Supported Hospital in Homs Region
December 01, 2015
BRUSSELS — Seven people were killed and a hospital supported by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was partially destroyed in a series of barrel bomb attacks in Syria’s Homs region on November 28, the organization said today.
Press release
Antiretroviral Drugs Fail to Consistently Reach Patients in Countries Most Affected by HIV/AIDS
November 30, 2015
JOHANNESBURG/HARARE—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today warned that lifesaving antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) are routinely not making their way to patients in sub-Saharan Africa, most often despite sufficient stocks already being present in countries, and called for urgent improvements in ARV supply chains in the region.
Field News
Yemen: Aiding People Affected by Cyclones in Hadhramaut Province
December 01, 2015
Two cyclones hit the southeast coast of Yemen in early November and did major damage, destroying houses, bridges and other infrastructure in the city of Mukalla, Hadhramaut province, and leaving hundreds of families homeless in the region.
To provide access to health care, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) set up a mobile clinic in Mukalla city, where a doctor and nurse have provided more than 300 medical consultations.
Field news
CAR: “The Humanitarian Situation is Still Critical”
December 01, 2015
Thierry Dumont, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of mission in Central African Republic (CAR), describes the current humanitarian crises in the country.