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The U.S. and 11 other countries are negotiating the... 23 Aug 2013 | 08:04 pm
The U.S. and 11 other countries are negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement (TPP) in secret. Provisions of the deal could keep affordable lifesaving medicines out of the hands of peo...
Two trucks crammed full of people collide at night in Haiti.... 20 Aug 2013 | 08:39 pm
Two trucks crammed full of people collide at night in Haiti. There are scores of injured patients; the MSF team comes together to save everyone they can. Read more Photo by Emilie Régnier
MSF Forced to Close All Medical Programs in Somalia | Doctors Without Borders 16 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
MSF Forced to Close All Medical Programs in Somalia | Doctors Without Borders: After working continuously in Somalia since 1991, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Bo...
Tracey Hansel, a U.S. doctor, just returned from her first... 16 Aug 2013 | 01:41 am
Tracey Hansel, a U.S. doctor, just returned from her first assignment with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), at Drouillard hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Part of her time was...
Photo by Yozo Kawabe After 28 weeks, a widespread outbreak of... 14 Aug 2013 | 02:17 am
Photo by Yozo Kawabe After 28 weeks, a widespread outbreak of measles in Katsina State, Nigeria, has ended. MSF had been regularly visiting 300 health facilities, and donated treatments for 14,290 pe...
“Refugee children are incredibly vulnerable to developing... 12 Aug 2013 | 10:41 pm
“Refugee children are incredibly vulnerable to developing vaccine-preventable diseases, so why do we keep hearing the players in the global vaccination community tell us these kids aren’t their proble...
Photo by Yann Libessart After a year of negotiations to get the... 9 Aug 2013 | 09:56 pm
Photo by Yann Libessart After a year of negotiations to get the lifesaving pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) at a reduced price in Yida refugee camp, South Sudan, MSF is finally starting the vaccin...
"Today we’re on the verge of starting a vaccination... 8 Aug 2013 | 11:34 pm
"Today we’re on the verge of starting a vaccination campaign against pneumococcal disease in Yida refugee camp (in South Sudan). What we would like to do is actually vaccinate all the children under f...
"She is on the brink of killing herself and then (thank goodness, thank goodness, thank goodness) she..." 7 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
“"She is on the brink of killing herself and then (thank goodness, thank goodness, thank goodness) she phones our councellor Kural."” - Dr. Emily Wise, working with TB patients in Uzbekistan, in her ...
Photo by Marjie Middleton/MSF "We’ve heard stories of women left... 6 Aug 2013 | 09:51 pm
Photo by Marjie Middleton/MSF "We’ve heard stories of women left to deliver on their own in a tent. Such stories are very upsetting to me as a midwife, because I know how dangerous it is and how awfu...
