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The Collections listed below are themed package of content from the Science Portal repository, curated by our editors and MSF subject-area experts. They draw from content across our publications, Scientific Day conferences and other technical publications.

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MSF Scientific Days Latin America 2024

MSF Scientific Days Latin America 2024

Published 19-Feb-2025

MSF Scientific Days in Latin America 2024 focused on two thematic areas:

Climate Emergency in the Americas: What Are We Seeing as a Medical Humanitarian Organization and How Are We Responding?

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Noma

Noma

Published 09-Jan-2025

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

Snake envenoming: a neglected crisis

Published 19-Sep-2024

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

MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts

Published 30-Apr-2024
On 3-4 May in Nairobi, Kenya, MSF gathered staff from our projects with experts from academia, clinical practice and the non-governmental sector to consider key issues in humanitarian paediatrics. These included: Vaccination and vaccine-preventable dise...
The climate crisis and health in humanitarian settings

The climate crisis and health in humanitarian settings

Published 19-Apr-2024
The climate crisis is also a health and humanitarian crisis, disproportionately impacting people in the world’s most climate-sensitive regions—mainly low- and low-middle income countries with the least capacity to respond. MSF and other humanitarian orga...
The endTB project

The endTB project

Published 12-Mar-2024

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

Medical and humanitarian harms of restrictive European migration policies

Published 06-Feb-2024
Conflict, persecution, poverty, food insecurity and natural disasters—increasingly fueled by climate change—continue to drive migration globally. Yet many wealthy countries are doubling down on hostile policies to prevent people from seeking safety within...
World NTD Day

World NTD Day

Published 23-Jan-2024

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

Diabetes care in humanitarian settings

Published 13-Nov-2023
Diabetes affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, a large majority of them living in low- and middle-income countries. Yet finding effective strategies, tools and policies for effectively managing this chronic illness—especially amid war, displace...
Combatting antimicrobial resistance

Combatting antimicrobial resistance

Published 07-Nov-2023

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...