The pipeline for innovative antibiotics is in bad shape, but offering billion dollar rewards to pharmaceutical companies is not the answer, says Els Torreele […]
MSF
Conflict in eastern Ukraine is a reminder that older people are especially vulnerable in emergencies
When Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) first launched a mobile clinic project to respond to the critical need for primary healthcare and mental health services in the conflict affected […]
Marthe Frieden: The aftermath of Cyclone Idai—building bridges where we can
Marthe Frieden is the medical team leader in MSF’s emergency response to the destruction caused by tropical Cyclone Idai. On the night of 15 March, the cyclone hit Zimbabwe’s mountainous […]
Engaging communities in tuberculosis research: The experience of the TB-PRACTECAL trial
In the wake of the 49th Union World Conference on lung health, multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) remains a major global public health threat. It was responsible for 230 000 deaths […]
Ana Paula Cavalheiro: Tuberculosis in the spotlight
After decades characterised by a scarcity of good news in the field of Tuberculosis (TB), more recent advances in diagnostics and treatment, as well as public policy, provide some cause […]
Isabelle Defourny and Christine Jamet: The bitter taste of Mosul
In the battle to retake Mosul, MSF was forced to witness the expendability of human life […]
Farrah Kashfipour: The waiting room art gallery
We collected hundreds of drawings—snapshots of an often overlooked corner of the world through the eyes of sick children […]
Monika Gattinger: How can Europe be more traumatising than Mosul?
The people living in Moria, a refugee camp in Greece, have been abandoned by Europe and treated like criminals for nothing more than wanting to be safe […]
Lulwa Al-Kilani: From one refugee to another, I hope you can go home soon
Since the start of the civil war, 165 000 South Sudanese refugees have fled the violence at home and crossed the border into Sudan’s White Nile state. Lulwa Al-Kilani, a […]
Melissa McRae: Yemen still remains an afterthought for the international community
The scale of suffering in Yemen is hard to grasp, but should be impossible to ignore […]