outbreak response

MSF has been treating patients for malaria in the Moissala district of Chad for two years, but the team has also responded to outbreaks of contagious diseases such as measles and meningitis. These outbreaks...

Web article – Last updated 15 May 2012
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Niger 2009 © Olivier Asselin Geneva/New York, 15 May 2012 —A new, ten-year, multi-billion dollar action plan for global vaccination may fail to deliver if it does not directly address...

Press Release – Last updated 15 May 2012
www.msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/new-global-vaccine-strategy-glosses-over-basic-immunisation-gaps

Niger 2009 © Olivier Asselin Lack of information on both the price and the different product characteristics of vaccines has been limiting countries’ ability to operate affordable...

Report – Last updated 10 April 2012
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Immediate response needed to save lives and prevent deeper health crisis, says MSF Berlin/N’Djamena, March 28, 2012: Severe acute malnutrition in parts of Chad’s Sahel belt has reached...

Press Release – Last updated 29 March 2012
www.msfaccess.org/about-us/media-room/press-releases/chad-faces-twin-emergencies-acute-malnutrition-and-meningitis

Haiti was hit with a massive epidemic of cholera, a disease not seen in the country for perhaps a century, in October 2010. The causative pathogen, Vibrio cholerae—variant O1 Ogawa—has been...

Web article – Last updated 21 October 2011
www.msfaccess.org/content/haiti-cholera-vaccines-one-possible-option-preventing-more-outbreaks

‘5 Lives’ are the stories of people that MSF works with every day, whose health and lives often hang on a simple medical intervention. These personal experiences are a snapshot of the...

Report – Last updated 20 October 2011
www.msfaccess.org/content/five-lives-how-financial-transaction-tax-could-support-global-health

Multimedia – Last updated 19 September 2011
www.msfaccess.org/content/measles-epidemics-skyrocket-month-focus-september-2011

Background information, September 2011 An overview of medical interventions against measles since 2001 as well as MSF's own emergency responses against measles since 2009.    

Briefing – Last updated 13 September 2011
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The current WHO policy during measles outbreaks focuses on case management rather than reactive vaccination campaigns in urban areas of resource-poor countries having low vaccine coverage. Vaccination...

In Medical Journals / Research Articles – Last updated 18 October 2005
www.msfaccess.org/content/exploring-time-intervene-reactive-mass-vaccination-campaign-measles-epidemics

Mobilizing Financial and Technical Resources Must be a Political Priority in Fight Against Resurgent Outbreaks Ethiopia 2011 © Sisay Zerihun / MSF Paris/New York, 12 September 2011...

Press Release – Last updated 13 September 2011
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