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    Tuberculosis: Doctors Without Borders launches unprecedented project to tackle underdiagnosis among children
    India
    Tuberculosis: Doctors Without Borders launches unprecedented project to tackle underdiagnosis among children
    Tuberculosis (TB) in children is a silent scourge: one child dies of tuberculosis every three minutes and more than half of all children with TB are n...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Access to medicines
    Nigeria: Doctors Without Borders Urges Immediate Response to the Worsening Diphtheria Outbreak
    Nigeria
    Nigeria: Doctors Without Borders Urges Immediate Response to the Worsening Diphtheria Outbreak
    [Abuja, September 18] – A serious diphtheria outbreak is tearing through Nigeria, where thousands of people have been infected and hundreds more have ...
    Infectious diseases
    Nigeria: Doctors Without Borders alerts on unprecedented number of malnourished children to treat
    Nigeria
    Nigeria: Doctors Without Borders alerts on unprecedented number of malnourished children to treat
    Unprecedented numbers of malnourished children in need of lifesaving treatment are being brought to therapeutic feeding centres run by the internation...
    Malnutrition
    Nigeria: Catastrophic malnutrition crisis in northwest must be recognised
    Nigeria
    Nigeria: Catastrophic malnutrition crisis in northwest must be recognised
    Abuja:As the malnutrition crisis in northwest Nigeria continues at catastrophic levels, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is ca...
    Malnutrition
    Out of sight: neglected malnutrition crisis threatens tens of thousands of children in northwest Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Out of sight: neglected malnutrition crisis threatens tens of thousands of children in northwest Nigeria
    Abuja: A growing, yet largely ignored, malnutrition crisis is unfolding in northwest Nigeria, which threatens the lives of tens of thousands of childr...
    Malnutrition
    Lassa fever: not only a neglected disease, but neglected patients too
    Nigeria
    Lassa fever: not only a neglected disease, but neglected patients too
    Nigeria is one of the several West African countries where lassa fever is endemic, yet very little is known about it. Even though lassa fever is a lar...
    Infectious diseases
    Nigeria: Prevention is key to stop children from dying of lead poisoning
    Nigeria
    Nigeria: Prevention is key to stop children from dying of lead poisoning
    Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has handed over its lead poisoning project in Zamfara, northern Nigeria, to state authorities....