MSF Podcasts
MSF is no longer producing the weekly MSF Frontlines podcast. This is an archive of past podcasts covering humanitarian news and emergency updates from MSF projects around the world until December 2011.
#82 Preventing and treating obstetric fistulas in Nigeria
07 March 2011
Obstetric fistulas, most often the result of prolonged obstructed labor, is an opening that occurs between the bladder and the vagina, or between the rectum and the vagina and causes a woman to become incontinent, among other devastating medical and social consequences. According to the UN, an estimated two million women live with fistulas today—about half of them in Nigeria.
#80 A New TB Test Brings Hope
24 February 2011
The most widely used method to test patients for TB fails to identify the disease in about half of the cases. But a long-awaited new test is raising hopes that we will be able to identify TB more effectively, get patients on treatment faster, and help reign in this deadly epidemic.
#79 Explos: How MSF decides to open a new project
16 February 2011
MSF is always evaluating its projects and looking at other areas where our assistance may be needed. This is done through exploratory missions—or explos.
#78 Fighting kala azar in southern Sudan
09 February 2011
Kala azar—or visceral leishmaniasis—is a treatable but largely neglected disease. Southern Sudan is currently facing a massive kala azar epidemic. This is a region where three-quarters of the population has no access to basic medical care, and the health system is unable to deal with an emergency on this scale.
#77 Survival migrants in Johannesburg try to improve their living conditions
01 February 2011
MSF works in the inner-city slums of Johannesburg, the destination point for many survival migrants. But finding safe shelter here is extremely challenging.
#76 A Year After the Earthquake in Haiti
21 January 2011
After a year of responding to the post-earthquake needs and the cholera epidemic that began in October, MSF has reviewed its own work in Haiti, and speaks out about what we see as the failure of the international aid system to respond adequately to the still enormous needs on the ground.
#75 DRC: MSF Responds to Mass Rape in South Kivu
11 January 2011
On the night of January first, a large number of women were brutally raped by groups of armed, uniformed men in Fizi, a town in South Kivu Province, eastern DRC. By January 3, an MSF mobile team had provided medical care to 33 victims. But the area has become so tense, the team has not been able to return to Fizi since.
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