Medical Issues

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPP, is a wide-ranging trade deal that could drastically curtail access to medicines in developing countries.

"Fighting Neglect" charts MSF's 25 years of experience in diagnosing and treating Chagas disease, sleeping sickness, and kala azar in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Caucasus.

MSF is delivering emergency medical care to displaced people in strife-plagued eastern DRC, including 5,000 seeking refuge in a stadium near Goma and many more in other setttlements.

But just as important gains are beginning to show their promise for patients, a stagnation in donor funding, coupled with trade policies that will create serious additional barriers to accessing affordable generic medicines, are dealing HIV/AIDS treatment a double blow.

MSF and other organizations are working to contain a deadly outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in northeastern DRC.

Mexico City, 3 August 2008 – On the opening day of the XVII International Aids Conference, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned of the deadly impact that the lack of health care workers is having on AIDS treatment and care in southern Africa.  In a satellite meeting called “Mind the Gaps” organized by MSF here today, experts described the scope and impact of the health care worker shortage as well as the critical need to increase government and donor commitment to taking immediate concrete steps to retain and support health care workers now.

MSF is working to help fight the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS in Yemen.

MSF's Caitlin Meredith speaks about her experience as an epidemiologist in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the themes of the documentary "Access to the Danger Zone," which examines the challenges that humanitarian organizations face in reaching people in need in armed conflicts.

Francis Gatluak's transformation from MSF patient to MSF nurse has saved countless lives.

MSF has launched an emergency response to combat an outbreak of malaria in South Kivu Province.

MSF's Henry Gray explains how Malian refugees are suffering from hunger after fleeing to Mbera camp in Mauritania.

Working with Sudan's Ministry of Health, MSF targeted children from six months to 15 years old in Al-Gedaref State.

Working with the South Sudanese Ministry of Health, MSF stemmed an outbreak of meningitis A and vaccinated over 130,000 people against the disease.

The war in Syria and an influx of refugees flowing into Tripoli have created a host of health needs and exacerbated complex and often violent communal dynamics in Lebanon's second-largest city.

After weeks of flooding, thousands of people in Kenya's Tana River Delta region are in urgent need of food, shelter, clean drinking water and medical services.

A measles epidemic is sweeping through northern Syria, a consequence of the civil war–related collapse of the country’s health system.

After her husband was killed by the violence plaguing eastern DRC, Victorine is living among other people displaced by the strife, facing a difficult future for herself and her four children.

MSF's mobile sleeping sickness teams travel to extremely remote areas to treat sleeping sickness.

“We, the people infected with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), live in every part of the world.”

Working with the South Sudanese Ministry of Health, MSF stemmed an outbreak of meningitis A and vaccinated over 130,000 people against the disease.

MSF provides services for mothers and newborns in Lesotho, where a high prevalence of HIV and limited access to care can make giving birth dangerous.