7464 Results

Pneumonia

Pneumonia definition and treatment

"You can prevent diarrhoea, you can prevent measles, you can even prevent malaria to some extent. But we've never been able to stop kids getting chest infections. They hit them like a truck." - MSF field doctor, Thailand. Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

HIV/AIDS

MSF basic information

"The worst is still to come in southern Africa. The region is facing human disaster on a scale it has never seen before." - Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis definition and treatment

People were saying, "Just push me off the bunk, I'm going to die anyway". - MSF field nurse in a prison hospital TB programme, Siberia Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

Cholera

Cholera definition and MSF treatment

"Usually the patient is moribund, eyes sunken back into the skull, literally minutes away from death. It may be a small child, or a mother, or an elderly man. Then comes the struggle to find a vein, and the first anxious moments as the IV drip starts to run. Always then I must move on to the next bed, and I may not have time to come back until many hours later. By then the patient has come back to life - sitting up, drinking, even managing a smile. It is the nearest thing to a miracle that a doctor ever gets to perform." - MSF field doctor, Bangladesh Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

Haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola definition and treatment

"We heard a story about a hospital about 100 miles to the west. Some mysterious disease had gone through it a couple of years before. It killed all the doctors, all the nurses, all the patients. Everyone. The first time we heard it we said it was just a rumour. Then other local people told us the same story. I remember thinking, 'what the hell could that have been?' " - MSF field doctor, south Sudan Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

Malaria

MSF Handbook: malaria information

Excerpts from the MSF Refugee handbook Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

Afghanistan

Afghans to lose vital international aid at time of most urgent need

The international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns of a severe deterioration in the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. Press Release - 19 Dec 2000

Afghanistan

MSF in Afghanistan - December 2000

Afghanistan has been in conflict for over two decades. Guerrilla warfare under a brutal Soviet occupation, civil war that quickly filled the vacuum after the Russian departure, and totalitarian rule of the victorious Taliban which now controls the vast majority of the country: the health of the Afghan people has been aggrieved by each of these stages of the country’s recent history. Project Update - 19 Dec 2000

Angola

Plan for a new MSF programme in northern Angola

Two years after evacuating the area, MSF is hoping to again provide basic healthcare services to the people of M'banza Congo, in Zaire province, Angola. As part of the new programme, MSF is considering starting a sleeping sickness project in the area. Project Update - 18 Dec 2000

Guinea

Vaccines urgently needed to treat yellow fever epidemic

The lives of several million people are currently threatened by an epidemic of yellow fever in Guinea. Over 1.5 million doses of vaccine are desperately needed and the absence is undermining vaccination efforts by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Voices from the Field - 18 Dec 2000

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.

Learn more

About us

What we do

Where we work

MSF Websites