3-20 | In the midst of a global cholera pandemic, that started in 1961 and has not yet ended, thousands of people remain at risk of illness and death from an entirely preventable disease.With a massive global oral cholera vaccine shortage, equating to demand exceeding up to four times global production capacity for the past two years, there is an urgent need for affected countries to adapt their existing approaches for responding to outbreaks.
2-6 | Since April 2023, in response to a deadly hepatitis E outbreak in South Sudan, MSF has launched a vaccination campaign in collaboration with the Ministry of Health to provide protection to women and girls of reproductive age, who are at greatest risk of death from the disease.
12-20 | Three years into its campaign to have noma recognised as a neglected tropical disease (NTD), Médecins Sans Frontières welcomes the decision by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), to include noma in the WHO’s official list of NTDs.
11-24 | Too little is being done to protect the most vulnerable people against the negative impacts of climate change, warns international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). World leaders gathering in Dubai for COP28 must take urgent measures to protect the health of the most affected communities.
9-7 | In mid-May this year, Hammanskraal in South Africa’s Gauteng Province became the epicentre of the second biggest cholera outbreak in the country this century, resulting in approximately 900 cases and 34 deaths.Cholera is not endemic to South Africa but according to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water, sanitation and hygiene expert, Danish Malik, climate change and other pressures are driving increased human mobility, “with the result that the frequency and scale of cholera outbreaks is rising.”