MEP Charles Goerens, rapporteur on Ebola to the European Parliament’s Committee on Development, recently declared in a European Council meeting that this epidemic is “the first major international crisis in […]
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Christmas Appeal 2014: Benjamin Black on Ebola through his eyes
When I begin each day I feel like I know what to expect. I have been in and out of west Africa since June, and watched this sad story developing […]
Grania Brigden: Mind the deadly gaps in the TB response
The 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health, recently held in Barcelona, opened with the health ministers of South Africa and India making bold commitments to address and reverse the tuberculosis […]
The price of joining the middle income country club: reduced access to medical innovation
When people think about medical humanitarian aid, the usual association is with war zones and natural disasters, and the assumption is that the most critical medical needs are concentrated in […]
Grazia Caleo: Ebola—a blind outbreak
In José Saramago’s book Blindness, he describes an epidemic of an unknown infection that causes people to lose their sight. A single person remains uninfected to bear witness to the anger, […]
Sarah Woznick: A nurse’s account of working in Gaza
Sarah Woznick is a specialist intensive care nurse working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF/ Doctors Without Borders). She arrived in Gaza six months ago from Denver, Colorado. She was due […]
MSF Scientific Day 2014: The role of evidence in humanitarian aid
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, in which between 500 000 and a million people were brutally killed. The international community failed to act and MSF […]
Estrella Lasry: Malaria control in emergencies—time for action
A lunar landscape, cracked earth, and scorching heat. 4,000 rudimentary tents made from wooden poles and plastic sheeting. And people everywhere, 95% of them women and children, according to camp […]
Goodman Makhanda and Jennifer Hughes: Drug resistant TB—dying for better treatment
Two weeks ago there was a small celebration in a primary care clinic in Khayelitsha, South Africa. Siyabulela Qwaka* was officially declared cured after taking more than two years of […]
Tane Luna Ramirez: Humanitarian disasters leave women at higher risk
Today, as International Women’s Day approaches, up to 23,000 people will be forced to flee their homes, joining 45 million others around the world who are already displaced due to […]