MSF for the healthcare of people in remote areas
Peter Paul De Groote has dedicated his life to serve the people, who are ravaged by armed conflicts, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or man-made disasters. Groote is General; Director of...
View ArticleBringing science and development together through news and analysis
You have a mission to help people caught up in an emergency – would you put scientific research on your to-do list? The answer isn’t an obvious ‘yes’. While the work of humanitarian and other NGOs...
View ArticleCamp North of Syrian City Houses 10,000 Refugees Fleeing Raqqa, Says MSF
Paris: About 10,000 civilians have fled to a camp just north of ISIS’s bastion of Raqqa with hundreds more arriving each day as the battle for the city nears, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on...
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Umeed ki Kiran: One-stop clinic for victims of sexual & domestic violence
We constantly talk about the problem of sexual violence, domestic abuse, and report their stories like statistics. We stop momentarily, if at all, to click our tongues in disapproval. “Look at the...
View ArticleCryptococcal Meningitis: A neglected NTD?
Although HIV/AIDS has been anything but neglected over the last decade, opportunistic infections (OIs) are increasingly overlooked as large-scale donors shift their focus from acute care to prevention...
View ArticleEducating nurses in resource-poor areas
Jai Defranciscis is an Australian nurse with a passion for paediatrics and education in resource-poor settings. Last year she joined the international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières...
View ArticleWhy India’s TB control is faltering: Poor diagnostics, drug supply...
India’s tuberculosis control programme is not fully equipped to prevent, diagnose, and treat patients. The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program uses outdated diagnostic techniques, suffers...
View ArticleIndia skips 6 Of 16 key WHO recommendations on TB
India does not implement six out of the 16 key World Health Organisation (WHO)- recommended tuberculosis (TB) control policies in diagnosis, patient care and treatment, a new global report has found....
View ArticleI’ve treated more lethal war wounds in Syria than I had imagined,’ says...
Thousands of lives are at stake in war zones such as Syria. Tending the wounded and the ill becomes a bigger challenge in places like these, especially since local healthcare services are nearly...
View ArticleStandardised Mortality Surveys
This collection of files includes an overview of the whole process of conducting a mortality survey and templates for concept papers, the protocol, questionnaires and consent and other related...
View ArticleModi’s proposed law on docs using generic name in prescriptions gets MSF vote
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international humanitarian-aid non-governmental organisation, on Monday welcomed the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposal to bring...
View ArticleMSF launches ‘Without Borders’ in Chandigarh
The international medical humanitarian organisation, Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is hosting ‘Without Borders’, a six-day event (April 28 – May 3) about access to healthcare,...
View ArticleModi’s proposed law on docs using generic name in prescriptions gets MSF vote
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international humanitarian-aid non-governmental organisation, on Monday welcomed the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposal to bring...
View ArticleMSF for the healthcare of people in remote areas
Peter Paul De Groote has dedicated his life to serve the people, who are ravaged by armed conflicts, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and natural or man-made disasters. Groote is General; Director of...
View ArticleModi’s proposed law on docs using generic name in prescriptions gets MSF vote
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international humanitarian-aid non-governmental organisation, on Monday welcomed the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposal to bring...
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