Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

MSF Frontline Reports - February 2010

Thu, 26 Feb 2010 16:00:00 -0500

Meet Natacha, a mother in Burkina Faso who struggles for her childrens' survival every year during the hunger gap; hear about MSF’s work in some of Zimbabwe's prisons; and get an update on the urgent needs in Haiti.

MSF Frontline Reports - January 2010

Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:58:00 -0500

From Port-au-Prince we bring you a report on MSF's emergency response to the Haiti earthquake; in the first three weeks MSF treated more than 11,000 patients. You'll hear from Haitian and international staff, as well as patients, on the ground.

MSF Frontline Reports - December 2009

Mon, 1 Dec 2009 17:30:00 -0500

Hear the song created by an MSF nurse in Central African Republic to raise awareness of sleeping sickness and malaria; MSF helps fight HIV/AIDS in South Africa's Khayelitsha township and addresses the double crises of HIV-TB co-infection in Swaziland.

MSF Frontline Reports - November 2009

Mon, 1 Dec 2009 17:30:00 -0500

In Sierra Leone, a new free health care proposal could save lives; and from Bangladesh, MSF assists Rohingya people struggling to survive; plus, this month's Emergency Updates.

MSF Frontline Reports - October 2009

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:30:00 -0500

From DRC, a story about malnutrition in a land rich for cultivation; and in Uganda, HIV-positive activist patients help MSF provide care; plus, this month's Emergency Updates.

MSF Frontline Reports - September 2009

Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:30:00 -0500

We go to northern Nigeria, where MSF provides surgery to women with fistulas; and an MSF aid worker describes working in Burkina Faso during the annual peak in malnutrition. You'll also hear emergency updates from MSF projects around the world.

MSF Frontline Reports - August 2009

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:25:00 -0500

New challenges to the fight against AIDS in the developing world; and in Ingushetia, civilians are suffering from a surge in violence.

MSF Frontline Reports - July 2009

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:25:00 -0500

This month, MSF launches a new podcast format, including a round-up of emergency updates from MSF projects worldwide. In our main reports, hear how MSF's program for victims of sexual violence has helped a 17-year-old patient in Guatemala, and listen to an interview with an MSF water and sanitation specialist just returned from Bangladesh, where survivors of Cyclone Aila are struggling to recover.

MSF Frontline Reports - June 2009

Thur, 2 Jul 2009 11:00:00 -0500

At least 10 percent of the population in Bolivia is believed to be carrying the parasite for Chagas disease. Few people, including medical staff, are aware of its prevalence, but MSF is running a ground-breaking program there. Also hear how MSF is offering mental health care to those affected by continuing violence on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. And learn how MSF is providing health care in Balochistan province in Pakistan, where decades of insecurity has made medical services rare.

MSF Frontline Reports - May 2009

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:00:00 -0500

MSF halts medical activities at a camp for Hmong refugees in northern Thailand after four years as the sole humanitarian organization providing assistance. Also, hear a report from the country of Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific, where MSF is helping victims of widespread domestic violence.

MSF Frontline Reports - April 2009

Fri, 1 May 2009 10:00:00 -0500

MSF is carrying out its largest ever vaccination campaign to fight a meningitis epidemic in West Africa. And hear MSF field workers in Haiti describe the overwhelming need for medical care in that country.

MSF Frontline Reports - March 2009

Fri, 3 April 2009 10:00:00 -0500

At least 3 million Zimbabweans are living in South Africa after fleeing a dramatically deteriorating situation in a country in crisis, yet few can find respite. Also in this edition, hear how MSF assists victims of rape in projects around the world.

MSF Frontline Reports - February 2009

Fri, 27 February 2009 10:00:00 -0500

In this edition, hear a report from Haut Uélé Province in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where MSF is trying to bring medical care to those injured and displaced by the Lord's Resistance Army. Listen to a report on the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe that has given rise to the recent, ongoing cholera epidemic; and hear a day in the life of an MSF field worker from Texas helping to bring treatment to victims of cholera in Zimbabwe.

MSF Frontline Reports - January 2009

Fri, 30 January 2009 10:00:00 -0500

A report from Gaza and stories about two direly needed MSF maternal health programs in Haiti and Pakistan. Aid groups brought more surgical teams and supplies to Gaza last week, but wounds are still deep in this war-torn area. An MSF hospital for women with complicated pregnancies is thrown into chaos when government hospitals are shut down city-wide. And, a report from Kuchlak, a remote part of Pakistan near the Afghan border, where it is often dangerous to be a pregnant woman.

MSF Frontline Reports - "Top Ten" Humanitarian Crises of 2008

Tue, 30 December 2008 10:00:00 -0500

Three of the urgent crises MSF named in its "Top Ten" of 2008: people's struggle to survive amid the violent chaos in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; the dire need for the international community to adopt proven, lifesaving ready-to-use foods to treat and prevent malnutrition; and a widespread cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe, brought on by the country's downward economic spiral.

MSF Frontline Reports - October 2008

Wed, 29 October 2008 10:00:00 -0500

Listen to reports on new strategies to combat malaria and MSF's response to the devastation wrought by successive hurricanes hitting Haiti. In the top story, hear how thousands of Somalis and Ethiopians fleeing war and destitution are undertaking a perilous journey aboard illegal smugglers' boats to cross the Gulf of Aden.

MSF Frontline Reports - MSF at the International AIDS Conference

Fri, 19 September 2008 10:00:00 -0500

In this special edition, listen to stories from the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico. This August, MSF presented medical data from its HIV/AIDS projects around the world and discussed challenges to providing the best care. You'll hear about two key issues: the shortage of health workers in sub-Saharan Africa that is helping to keep the 70 percent of people living with HIV from receiving the care they desperately need; and the challenges to treating children with HIV.

MSF Frontline Reports - June 2008

Mon, 30 May 2008 10:00:00 -0500

In this edition, listen to stories on why the current global system of pharmaceutical research and development is failing millions of people around the world, how MSF is assisting Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh who for more than a decade have been fleeing violence and persecution in Myanmar, and MSF's response to the nutritional emergency in southern Ethiopia.

MSF Frontline Reports - Myanmar Cyclone Emergency II

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Myanmar Cyclone Emergency II

MSF Frontline Reports - Myanmar Cyclone Emergency

Tue, 13 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Myanmar Cyclone Emergency

MSF Frontline Reports - April 2008

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:00:00 -0500

Stories on an MSF study on predicting and responding to measles outbreaks in the West African nation of Niger, how a South African mother and her baby daughter fought to survive a deadly form of tuberculosis, and how thousands are still waiting for the promises of peace in southern Sudan.

MSF Frontline Reports - March 2008

Wed, 26 March 2008 16:00:00 -0500

Focus on Darfur

MSF Frontline Reports - February 2008

Thu, 28 February 2008 15:00:00 -0500

In this edition, reports on how a neglected disease continues to cause blindness in people living with HIV/AIDS in Southeast Asia, on India's hidden war in Chhattisgarh state, and on the evolution of MSF's response to post-election violence in Kenya.

MSF Frontline Reports - January 2008

Fri, 31 January 2008 15:00:00 -0500

Reports on three of the most underreported humanitarian stories from the past year, including stories on how MSF is responding to Sri Lanka's rekindled civil war and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province. The struggle for civilians to survive amid the violence in the Central African Republic is the top story.

MSF Frontline Reports - December 2007

Thu, 27 December 2007 15:00:00 -0500

In this edition, listen to how MSF is responding to the conflict in Iraq and providing health care to vulnerable Burmese migrant workers in southern Thailand. In the top story, a report on the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, which has been the setting of chronic fighting for nearly a decade. Since August, clashes between the Congolese army and rebel groups refusing to be integrated into the national army have forced more than 500,000 people to flee, according to the United Nations.

MSF Frontline Reports - October 2007

Thu, 25 October 2007 16:00:00 -0500

In this edition, reports on how an MSF hospital in Haiti is responding to the overwhelming need for maternal health care in country's capital, Port-au-Prince, and the ways MSF is confronting the AIDS pandemic in Cambodia. Plus, a story on MSF's use of lifesaving ready-to-use foods to treat malnourished children in the West African country of Niger.

MSF Frontline Reports - Somalia Alert

Thurs, 6 September 2007 16:00:00 -0500

In this special edition, we focus on the deteriorating situation for civilians and medical workers in Mogadishu, Somalia. Somalia has been wracked by violence for nearly 16 years now. But the past months has seen some of the worst fighting ever in the capital, Mogadishu. Access to medical care and assistance for civilians and displaced persons in and around the war-ravaged Somali capital has decreased alarmingly in the past few months. Kris Torgeson has this report from Nairobi, Kenya, where MSF spoke out against the dire humanitarian situation in Mogadishu. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports August 2007

Mon, 27 August 2007 16:00:00 -0500

In this month's edition, you'll hear how MSF teams are confronting tuberculosis along the Thai-Burmese border and how epidemiological research is guiding some of MSF's most important humanitarian assistance programs. You can also hear firsthand accounts from people who have fled Colombia's civil war. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports June-July 2007

Fri, 06 July 2007 16:00:00 -0500

In this month's edition, you'll hear how the health-care worker crisis in southern Africa is undermining efforts to provide HIV/AIDS treatment and why a man living with AIDS in Thailand needs access to an AIDS medicine produced by an American pharmaceutical company. In our top story, an update on the situation in eastern Chad, where deadly attacks on villages have forced more than 150,000 people to flee their homes. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports May 2007

Wed, 22 May 2007 16:00:00 -0500

In this month's edition, you'll hear stories on how Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is responding to the upsurge of violence in the South Asian nation of Sri Lanka and West Africa's Ivory Coast. And a feature on MSF's reconstructive surgery program in Amman, Jordan, for war-wounded Iraqi civilians. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports April 2007

Mon, 7 May 2007 10:00:00 -0500

In this month's edition, listen to stories on how MSF is treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the former Soviet state of Georgia, responding to the latest outbreaks of violence in the central African nation of Chad, and assisting victims of violence in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta region. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports March 2007

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:00:00 -0500

Listen to reports on current issues affecting access to essential medicines, including a new, easy-to-use treatment for malaria; a court case in India that could prevent millions of people around the world from getting the medicines they need to survive; and on the fight to secure a vital AIDS drug in Thailand. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports February 2007

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:20:00 -0500

Listen to reports on the ongoing violence along the Chad-Sudan border and MSF's response to an epidemic of meningitis in northern Uganda. In addition, a story on the global vaccine shortage for meningitis. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports January 2007

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:20:00 -0500

In this edition, you'll hear reports on an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever, a rare viral disease, in northeastern Kenya, and on HIV/AIDS treatment in Malawi. Plus, learn how MSF is using an outdoor, interactive exhibit to shed light on the plight of the 33 million people worldwide who have been uprooted by war. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports December 2006

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:20:00 -0500

In this edition, a story on the humanitarian situation in Darfur, Sudan, an interview with MSF's international council president on the war-torn region, and a report on the mounting human toll of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports November 2006

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:20:00 -0500

MSF Frontline Reports October 2006

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:20:00 -0500

Includes news about the surge of reported sexual violence cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo; MSF medical teams discuss the challenges of treating HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in one of Kenya's largest slums; and how MSF is using new strategies to combat acute malnutrition in Niger. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:20:00 -0500

Includes stories from the medical frontlines in Haiti and Somalia, and a report on how MSF is bringing HIV/AIDS treatment to the most remote and mountainous areas of Lesotho. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:20:00 -0500

Includes reports from Lebanon and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a discussion of how the situation in Northern Uganda has evolved over the past year. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:20:00 -0500

MSF Frontline Reports June 2006 includes a discussion with nutrition specialist Dr. Milton Tectonidis about an innovative strategy for treating acute malnutrition, as well as news from northern Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Palestinian Territories. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.

MSF Frontline Reports

Tue, 23 May 2006 13:20:00 -0500

May 2006 Frontline Report features news from Sudan and Colombia, and on the fight to access critical new AIDS drugs in developing countries. Visit us at www.doctorswithoutborders.org or www.msf.org.