#73 Meet the first MSF patient to have recovered from XDR-TB
XDR-TB stands for extensive drug resistant tuberculosis. Drugs for TB have not been improved in four decades; they cause terrible side effects and require the patient to take numerous pills every day for between six months and three years. While one in five patients under treatment for moderately resistant strains of the disease do not survive, patients with extensively resistant cases, if they can get treatment at all, usually must rely on less effective and more toxic medicines, with lower success rates. For these reasons and others, Xoliswa Armans is a remarkable patient. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - December 23, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#72 In Lagos, Nigeria, building a clinic on water to reach an excluded population
One of many so-called megacities growing at rapid speeds around the world, Lagos attracts a steady flow of people from rural areas of Nigeria and from other countries. MSF is offering free-of-charge medical services in three slum areas of Lagos, including Makoko, where teams are running a clinic on land and constructing a rather unique small clinic on water. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - December 16, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#71 Assisting ever-growing numbers of Somali refugees in Dadaab, Kenya
Just across the Somali border lies a complex of overcrowded refugee camps filled with shelters made of twigs, reeds, and whatever scraps inhabitants can find. Each month, about 5,000 new people arrive at the camps, and must carve out space outside the official boundaries. Without access to adequate shelter, food, clean water and sanitation, they are exposed and vulnerable. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - December 9, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#70 Giving Children with HIV the Support They Need
Treating children with HIV goes beyond putting them on medication. Patient support specifically targeted to children helps motivate them to stick with their treatment regimen. But there has yet to be a scientific study to help determine the best practices for providing this support. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - December 1, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#69 Preventing mother-to-child HIV in rural Kenya
In Kenya, more than 22,000 children were infected with HIV in 2009. The district of Homa Bay, in rural western Kenya, has the country's highest HIV prevalence rate. MSF is working to stop the spread of the disease in Homa Bay with its prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) program. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - November 23, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#68 Fighting cholera in Haiti
More than 1,150 MSF staff are responding to the massive cholera outbreak right now, a daunting task given the quickly rising numbers of cases throughout the country. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - November 16, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#67 "Europe! HANDS OFF Our Medicine"
MSF launched a public campaign to tell Europe to back off its trade policies that could destroy India's generics industry and keep millions of people in developing countries from their urgently needed medicines. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - November 8, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#66 Treating survivors of domestic and sexual violence in PNG
In Papua New Guinea, 70 percent of women say they've been physically abused by their husbands, and in some parts of the country that number reaches 100 percent, according to the PNG Law Reform Commission. When this kind of violence is so widespread, what kind of a difference can a small MSF project make? (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - November 3, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#65 MSF closes a long-running hospital in DRC
The Bon Marche Hospital in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, was started by MSF in 2003 after years of conflict and instability had rendered the national health services almost non-existent. Now, although violence between armed groups in the Congo is still a huge concern, the situation in Bunia itself is significantly calmer. This year MSF handed over medical activites back to the country's ministry of health.
Hear about how and why MSF leaves a project. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - October 26, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#64 MSF's Kashmir radio soap opera
"Alaw Baya Alaw" - Kashmiri for "Hello Brother, Hello" - has been on the air in the Kashmir Valley since 2005. Its purpose is to raise awareness of mental health issues in an entertaining way. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - October 19, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#63 In Kashmir, mental health care during a surge of violence
The Kashmir Valley has been in the midst of increasing civil unrest since June. Violent, deadly clashes between protestors and security forces have led to strict 24-hour curfews and an even more pronounced military presence on the streets, the combination of which has kept people from accessing much-needed mental health care. MSF has been providing psychological care in Kashmir since 2002 and since June the team has had to adjust its strategy to in order to reach those who need help the most. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - October 15, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#62 Difficulties of treating children with TB
In Mathare, a poor area on the outskirts of Nairobi, MSF treats children with TB, but just diagnosing them is extremely challenging. Results of the lack of research into TB means the main diagnostic tool for the adult form of the disease is 130 years old and not at all adapted for use with children. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - October 6, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#56 Preventing mother-to-child HIV in Uganda
Less than 100 babies contract HIV from their mothers in US every year, while 18,000 known cases occur in Uganda. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - August 24, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#55 Malnutrition Crisis in Chad
Food insecurity is particularly severe in areas of the Sahel region this year; MSF is conducting emergency nutrition interventions. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - August 18, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
#54 Emergency response to floods in Pakistan
An MSF team conducted a helicopter assessment of areas cut off from aid by destroyed roads and bridges - this is what they saw. (Source: MSF Podcasts)
Source: MSF Podcasts - August 9, 2010 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Source Type: podcasts
