Despite having its critics, most clinicians agree that evidence-based medicine is, on the whole, a good thing. But evidence is just one part of what drives policy, and this is […]
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Manica Balasegaram: New treatment options for the control of visceral leishmaniasis
A recent report by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) of an outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in southern Sudan comes at a time when increasing focus is being put on the […]
Mit Philips on doublespeak in Vienna
The high point of the summer, for those involved in HIV-AIDS, was the Vienna AIDS conference – a perfect mix of evidence, policies, and politics. While some of the scientific […]
Mit Philips: No time to quit on HIV/AIDS funding
Here in Europe, HIV has virtually gone off the radar. It has been reduced to a chronic but eminently treatable disease that affects relatively small numbers of people, neither a […]
Paul McMaster: Everythin’s gonna be all right in Haiti?
We arrive in Haiti during the second night after the earthquake, and the scenes of destruction and devastation are overwhelming. We are silent as we went our way through the […]
Kiran James Jobanputra: Escape
It is sad, it never ceases to be sad, working in hospitals. Working with the mothers, their fatigued, careworn faces, the infrequent tears, the resigned, long-suffering poise, concealing hearts that […]
Kiran James Jobanputra: A world without MSF
It’s hard to contemplate Bunia without MSF. Bon Marché (the MSF hospital) is truly an institution – everyone I meet has either worked there or been a patient there – […]
Kiran James Jobanputra: first days in DRC
When you are accustomed to living in closed compounds you develop a long-distance stare; a meditative gaze you adopt automatically when left to yourself. This abstracted state serves two purposes. […]
Philipp du Cros: A Momentous Day?
Mr S looked calm and somewhat bemused by the commotion. He had twice unsuccessfully undergone standard treatment for tuberculosis (TB) and had been taking antiretrovirals for HIV for over a […]
MSF doctor Caroline Forwood on kala azar in India
The music is loud tonight, layers of competing sounds, horns and wind instruments, a screeching female voice on a tannoy system then a man with a better trained voice, car […]