Tackling TB in Sudan and South Sudan
Over recent years, MSF has integrated the diagnosis and treatment of TB into some of its medical programmes in Sudan and South Sudan in order to help tackle this disease, treating refugees, internally displaced people and local communities. - 23 Mar 2020![Patients waiting to take their methadone at the Karuri MAT clinic [© Paul Odongo/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf308280_medium.jpg?itok=O6PmUkp0 "Patients waiting to take their methadone at the Karuri MAT clinic [© Paul Odongo/MSF]")
Access to Healthcare
“I never thought I would get hooked,” reprieve for drugs users through a holistic approach
MSF's new facility in Kiambu, Kenya offers a one-stop clinic for people who use drugs (PWUDs) and aims to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with illicit opioid drug use Article - 13 Mar 2020
HIV/AIDS
Four things you need to know about South Sudanese refugees in Sudan
In December 2019, MSF opened a new 85-bed hospital in White Nile state, Sudan, upgrading the existing services in order to strengthen the quality of healthcare provided to South Sudanese refugees and the local community. The hospital, in Al Kashafa refugee camp, provides primary and secondary healthcare for patients with complicated conditions, including severely malnourished children and people with chronic infectious diseases, such as HIV and tuberculosis (TB). Article - 4 Feb 2020
Access to Healthcare
New MSF hospital in White Nile state to strengthen the quality of healthcare provided to refugees and local community
Khartoum/Al Kashafa, 23 January 2020 – Today, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) inaugurates a new hospital in Al Kashafa refugee camp, White Nile state, Sudan. The hospital will strengthen the quality of healthcare being provided to South Sudanese refugees and the local community. Press Release - 24 Jan 2020
Access to medicines
As J&J release earnings, MSF protests price of lifesaving TB drug in front of New York Stock Exchange
New York, 22 January 2020—Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) protested in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York today, demanding the pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J) make the tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline available for all people with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) for no more than a dollar a day. The price of this crucial drug must be lowered to reflect the joint contributions made in the research and development of this drug by taxpayers, and the global scientific and TB community, including by MSF itself. Press Release - 21 Jan 2020
Access to Healthcare
Five New Year’s resolutions for improving care in 2020
A new year is an excellent opportunity to see how we can further improve our work. Every MSF project is unique and is set within its own context, and will therefore have its own priorities of areas to improve. But there are also things we want to do better across all of our projects. Here are five examples of things we want to get better at in 2020. Press Release - 9 Jan 2020
Access to medicines
We would like to share with you our vision of how we want to see things change for people we serve in our projects and other people in developing countries in the form of our annual ‘Wishlist’.
Please enjoy and share so we can continue to build our Access to Medicines community and together change the world! Press Release - 3 Jan 2020
Wishlist 2020
As we move out of our anniversary year, MSF’s Access Campaign team is looking forward eagerly to the work that lies ahead in 2020 to open up access to medicines.We would like to share with you our vision of how we want to see things change for people we serve in our projects and other people in developing countries in the form of our annual ‘Wishlist’.
Please enjoy and share so we can continue to build our Access to Medicines community and together change the world! Press Release - 3 Jan 2020
![Sex worker in the Kimbi project, South Kivu[Photo: Nathalie San Gil/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf291129_medium.jpg?itok=IRDwyFa7 "Sex worker in the Kimbi project, South Kivu[Photo: Nathalie San Gil/MSF]")
HIV/AIDS
Violence in the Fields
In the province of South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams treat survivors of sexual and gender based violence. Many are survivors of rape and multiple forms of violence often perpetrated at community level. The main challenges facing the team are encouraging survivors to come forward, breaking down stigma and information around essential services and care. To help address this, MSF has put in place a community-based strategy with trusted focal points within the community. Article - 18 Dec 2019
HIV/AIDS
DRC: HIV/AIDS in mining areas
In the South East of the South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operates at the Misisi health centre. The mining area of Misisi is home to many miners, sex workers and people living with HIV/AIDS Article - 18 Dec 2019
HIV/AIDS