kala azar/visceral leishmaniasis

Moses Chol Maper is MSF’s emergency coordinator for the kala azar response. He comes from Lakes State in southern Sudan.

 

My name is Thinjin Wal and I have four children.

 

As a medical organisation we constantly strive to provide the most effective healthcare possible for our patients.

 

There are 1.5 million people living with
HIV/AIDS in Kenya,
and MSF’s work in the country continues with a strong focus on HIV care.

Kenya 2010 © Julien Rey/MSF

Many people who
move to Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh,
end up living in slums where the availability of healthcare is often very
limited.

Bangladesh 2011 © Gazi Nafis Ahmed

After supporting the health authorities of South Sudan to
successfully fight the largest outbreak in years of the deadly disease Kala-Azar, MSF...

Sudan 2010 © MSF

The Gates Foundation-hosted conference held in London today, ‘Uniting To Combat Tropical Diseases’,
draws attention to devastating...

MSF integrated Chagas screening Colombia 2010 © Mads Nissen

The international medical-humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), is currently responding to a large...

Country Year © Author/MSF

This article was published in the Westmeath Examiner on 15th January 2011.  For Castepollard architect John Smyth,...

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