"I returned to Darfur this October, having worked there in July 2004 when few aid agencies were operational and there was a crisis requiring a massive and urgent increase in assistance. Fighting was going on then but it was possible to rapidly expand the aid effort. Today things are very different," writes Dr. Rowan Gillies, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International Council President, on the situation in Darfur, Sudan.
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Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned that The World Health Organization (WHO) must not rely on standard TB strategies to treat extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB). With 450,000 new cases of drug resistant TB globally each year, resistance to drugs is a problem that is growing at a rapid pace. Read more
An increase in violence and fighting in 2006 has led Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to return to Sri Lanka to provide medical assistance to the war affected population. Since August of this year, approximately 200,000 people have been displaced by the fighting. Despite requests from the Sri Lanka's ministry of health for MSF to provide assistance to several hospitals in the north of the country, MSF has so far only been allowed to begin activities in Point Pedro Hospital on the Jaffna Peninsula. Read more
For many people living in the Russian Republic of Chechnya, physical scars and poorly healed wounds remain a painful reminder of the awful war that they have, and continue to, endure. In an attempt to help them rebuild their lives, MSF has recently opened a reconstructive surgery project in the republic's main reference hospital, Hospital Number 9.
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Every day, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mobile teams criss-cross Niger's rural areas in search of acutely malnourished children. The number of children treated in MSF's therapeutic feeding programs is growing steadily—more than 50,000 have been treated so far this year. Read more
MSF left Iraq in November 2004 as targeted attacks on international aid organizations meant it was no longer possible to work there. This year it has begun to provide assistance again to Iraqis by partnering with the Red Crescent hospital in Amman, Jordan, to provide specialized surgery. Read more
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Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned that The World Health Organization (WHO) must not rely on standard TB strategies to treat extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB). With 450,000 new cases of drug resistant TB globally each year, resistance to drugs is a problem that is growing at a rapid pace. 
MSF video: The challenges of treating tuberculosis
Every day, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mobile teams criss-cross Niger's rural areas in search of acutely malnourished children. The number of children treated in MSF's therapeutic feeding programs is growing steadily—more than 50,000 have been treated so far this year.
11/15/06
MSF's international president, Dr. Rowan Gillies, on Voice of America
