An outbreak of malaria in Lulingu, in Democratic Republic of Congo (DCR)’s South Kivu Province, is affecting large numbers of people, prompting an emergency response from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF teams have already treated more than 2,500 people since the start of May.

The World Health Organisation has this morning issued interim guidance on the use of bedaquiline, the first new drug to treat tuberculosis in 50 years, which received accelerated approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) on 31 December 2012. WHO's release on the guidelines can be found here. Acknowledging the growing crisis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and the urgent need for improved drugs with better efficacy and safety profiles, WHO has taken an unprecedented step to make interim recommendations about a drug based on phase IIb clinical trial data.

Trois mois après le coup d’état en République centrafricaine (RCA), MSF continue d’accroître ses activités pour répondre aux besoins de milliers de personnes actuellement privées de soins médicaux de base.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is now running mobile clinic services to some 5,000 people who took refuge in a stadium near Goma, in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s North Kivu province, following late May clashes between the Congolese Army and the M23 rebel group. This is in addition to work MSF is already doing in the Bulengo and Mugunga III camps for people displaced by fighting.

Six months after the first international donor conference for Syria, humanitarian aid is failing. Security and living conditions have deteriorated dramatically. People living in areas controlled by opposition groups have almost no access to official international aid. Across the country, there are enclaves surrounded by intense fighting, where virtually no aid is reaching the people trapped inside.

Trois mois après le coup d’état qui a eu lieu en République centrafricaine (RCA), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) accroît ses activités pour répondre aux besoins de milliers de personnes actuellement privées de soins de base.

MSF a ouvert un nouveau projet offrant des soins d’urgence à Bossangoa, au nord de la capitale, Bangui, où le personnel mène plus de 300 consultations par jour.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with the South Sudanese Ministry of Health, stemmed a meningitis A outbreak and vaccinated over 130,000 people against the disease in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, reinforcing its commitment to assisting the region’s population.

Starting on 15 May, medical teams deployed in the northern city of Malakal administered a vaccine first introduced a few years ago that will give the region’s vulnerable population a longer-lasting immunity to meningitis A (a strain likely to cause large-scale epidemics).

NEW YORK, MAY 30, 2013—Following an attack on an office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, which killed an ICRC staff member, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today strongly condemned violence against humanitarian workers and facilities.

“MSF calls on all parties to the conflict in Afghanistan to respect humanitarian workers as well as medical facilities, which must remain safe and neutral,” said Brice de le Vingne, MSF director of operations.

London, 30 May 2013 – Jordan urgently needs greater international support in order to continue accommodating refugees from Syria inside its borders, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said today. Conditions are already poor for the approximately 100,000 Syrian refugees settled in Zaatari camp in the north of the country, and are set to worsen; but a lack of financial resources and political will is testing the Jordanian government’s ability to meet the increasing needs.