Noma
Noma, also known as cancrum oris, is a rapidly progressing life-threatening infection that affects the mouth and face. Noma is preventable and easy to treat if addressed in the early reversible stages, but most often deadly if untreated. The disease mo...
Snake envenoming: a neglected crisis
Every year 2 million or more people fall victim to snakebite envenoming, mostly in poor, rural communities of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Between 83,000—138,000 of them die, while hundreds of thousands more suffer debilitating long-term complicatio...
MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts
The climate crisis and health in humanitarian settings
The endTB project
The endTB project aims to find shorter, less toxic and more effective treatments for ‘multidrug-resistant TB’ (MDR-TB) through:
- access to new drugs
- two clinical trials
- advocacy at national and global levels
Coveri...
Medical and humanitarian harms of restrictive European migration policies
World NTD Day
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) impact nearly 1.7 billion people each year, causing serious illness or lifelong disability among many—often leading to stigma and exclusion—and killing an estimated 200,000. The vast majority of sufferers live in the ...
Diabetes care in humanitarian settings
Combatting antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing public health crisis, especially in countries with fragile health systems, population displacement or ongoing conflict. In 2019 antibiotic-resistant bacteria directly caused an estimated 1.27 million deaths, and co...