Africa: WHO Launches Strategy to Cut Snakebite Deaths and Disabilities in Half
[MSF] M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the release of the long-anticipated World Health Organization (WHO) strategy on the prevention and control of snakebite envenoming, with the ambitious targets to cut in half the number of snakebite deaths and cases of disability by 2030. Governments and fundi ng organisations must step up now and respond to snakebite with the urgency and attention this neglected public health crisis demands.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 23, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Choosing the Right Font for Optimal Medical Device Usability
Conclusion Many different elements can influence the usability of a text. After designing text material with the appropriate font, size, spacing, and colors, don’t forget to verify the legibility, reading level, and comprehension by testing the material with intended user groups.
Source: MDDI - May 22, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Christine Park Tags: Labeling Source Type: news

Nigeria: Measles Kill 58 in Borno
[This Day] Maiduguri -M édecines Sans Frontières (MSF), popularly known as Doctors Without Borders on Friday revealed that 58 people had been killed by measles in Borno State since January.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 18, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Wellcome Trust investing £80m in snakebite treatment
Scientists say antivenom exists for only 60% of all the snakes in the worldNew drugs for snakebite are desperately needed, say scientists, to replace the current 100-year-old treatment made by injecting snake ’s venom into a horse and harvesting antibodies – which is very expensive, may not work and can cause lethal allergic reactions.Snakebite, says the Wellcome Trust, is the cause of the world ’s biggest hidden health crisis – and it is investing £80m in the hope of solving it. The World Health Organization will this month also launch a snakebite strategy aiming to halve deaths by 2030. Every five minutes, on av...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 15, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Sarah Boseley Health editor Tags: Science Snakes World Health Organization M édecins Sans Frontières World news Source Type: news

2018 a Year of Dangerous Attacks on Health Workers, Facilities
May 14, 2019 WashingtonThere were at least 973 attacks on health workers, health facilities, health transports, and patients in 23 countries in conflict in 2018, the  Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition reported today. At least 167 health workers died and at least 710 were injured. This marks an increase in the number of documented attacks compared to 2017, when the coalition reported 701 such instances.The coalition ’s sixth annual report documents attacks on vaccination workers, paramedics, nurses, doctors, midwives, community volunteers, drivers, and guards, in violation of international norms and interrupti...
Source: IntraHealth International - May 14, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: intrahealth Tags: Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition Policy & Advocacy Source Type: news

Central African Republic: MSF Reaches Town Cut Off By Violence in Central African Republic
[MSF] Over the last six years, Central African Republic (CAR) has endured peaks of intense violence that have weakened an already precarious health system and deprived people of access to even the most basic health care. In many parts of the country, people live in constant fear of violence and are unable to leave their neighborhoods to seek medical services. In response, Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs mobile clinics to bring medical care to them.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 10, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Libya: Ongoing Fighting Endangers Detained Migrants and Refugees
[MSF] Since fighting erupted in Tripoli, Libya, on April 4, 2019, Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for the urgent evacuation of detained refugees and migrants whose lives are in danger as the conflict rages around them.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 10, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Libya: Thousands of People At Risk As Fighting Escalates in Tripoli
[MSF] Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely concerned for the safety of civilians in Tripoli as escalating fighting forces thousands of Libyan families to flee their homes and seek shelter. We urgently call for the immediate evacuation of the more than 3,000 refugees and migrants trapped in detenti on centers who are at risk of being caught in the crossfire.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 24, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ethiopia: Alarming Rates of Malnutrition Among Displaced People in Southern Ethiopia
[MSF] M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned for the welfare of tens of thousands of vulnerable internally displaced people (IDPs) in southern Ethiopia, following an assessment that revealed alarming findings about their nutritional status, poor living conditions and limited availability of safe dri nking water.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 19, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ethiopia: MSF Launches Intervention As Displacement Crisis Leads to High Malnutrition Rates
[MSF] New York/Addis Ababa -Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a medical intervention in the Gedeo area of southern Ethiopia following a nutritional assessment in late March, which found malnutrition rates above emergency levels for children under five. The international medical humanitarian organization is calling o n other humanitarian agencies to urgently scale up their support for the large number of internally displaced people living in the area.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 18, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Rwanda: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide 25 Years On
[MSF] When the massacres started in Rwanda twenty-five years ago, on April 7, 1994, Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières teams suddenly found themselves caught in a frenzy of violence. MSF, which had teams across the country, was keenly aware of mounting tensions throughout the early 1990s between members of the Hutu ethnic majority--who controlled Rwanda's government--and the Tutsi minority. But no one was prepared for the scale of the violence to come, as the Hutu-led government launc
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 13, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Congo-Kinshasa: Ebola Epidemic Not Under Control, Urgent Change of Strategy Needed
[MSF] New York -The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) made the following statement after the World Health Organization decided today to not declare a Public Health Emergency of International Concern for the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 13, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Africa: Humanitarian Mechanism for Vaccines Used for First Time in Europe to Counter High Prices
[MSF] M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started vaccinating refugee children on the Greek islands of Chios, Samos and Lesvos using a programme set up to allow children in humanitarian emergencies to access the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) at an affordable price.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 12, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Central African Republic: MSF Denounces Killing of Medical Worker
[MSF] The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the killing on April 4 of Gaulbert Mokafe, an assistant nurse in Batangafo, Central African Republic (CAR), by an armed group.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 10, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: Nigeria - Over 30,000 People in Acute Need in Monguno, Borno State
[MSF] Over 30,000 people who were forced to flee to the town of Monguno, following renewed clashes that erupted in Nigeria's Borno state in late December 2018, are in acute need of shelter, water, sanitation, food, protection, medical care and mental health support, warns M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 4, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

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