MEDICAL

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has integrated its treatment of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) as TB has become the number one killer of HIV/AIDS patients. An HIV positive person is 10 times more likely to develop TB than a...[more]

In 2010 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continued its long-standing and successful treatment programs for kala azar in Southern Sudan and Ethiopia. This fatal disease is always present in Southern Sudan, but large epidemics occur...[more]

In terms of patient numbers, malaria remained the most significant disease dealt with by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2010. teams treated more than 1,100,000 people for the disease...[more]

In the field of psychological care, in 2010 teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided both individual and group mental health counselling to 63,501 people affected by the consequences of violence, displacement or natural...[more]

Due to food insecurity, disasters such as drought, economic decline and lack of healthcare, malnutrition is unfortunately common among the people MSF offers care to in many countries...[more]

Sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis, is a fatal parasitic disease that affects 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: 60 million people are at risk. Nearly eliminated in the 1960s, sleeping sickness has been making a...[more]

Surgical care was an important part of the lifesaving work of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2010. In comparison to other years, a much greater number of surgical specialists worked in projects for the organization.[more]

The role of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is not only curative. MSF is also involved in preventive medical action such as routine vaccinations, which our teams carry out through their own vaccination programs or by supporting...[more]

Providing safe water and hygiene in emergency settings

2010 was a very demanding year for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water and sanitation specialists. The organization's biggest water and sanitation intervention was...[more]