An approach to emergency situations. Relief workers face rapidly changing and complex environments, new disease patterns, enormous humanitarian needs and relatively limited resources. The authors of this book use their experience in the area to produce an operational manual of the issues involved in... refugee health programs. This book is aimed at professionals involved in public health assistance to refugees and displaced persons. It deals with a variety of specific refugee health issues at the decisional level, and discusses the priorities of intervention during the different phases of a refugee crisis, from emergency to repatriation.
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Practical guide intended for physicians, pharmacists, nurses and medical auxiliaries. This guide is not a dictionary of pharmacological agents. It is a practical manual intended for health professionals, physicians, pharmacists, nurses and health auxiliaries invoved in curative care and drug managem...ent. We have tried to provide simple, practical solutions to the questions and problems faced by field medical staff, using the accumulated field experience of Médecins Sans Frontières, the recommendations of reference organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and specialized documentation in each field. Also available in French, Spanish and Arabic
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Part of the MSF "Guideline for cholera control"
Time for recognition of lay counsellors
Accessed November 2017
Сеть людей, перенесших туберкулез: руководство для пациентов и выставка “Вдохнуть и не дышать"
Hover over the image for an interactive guide to our Ebola teams' Personal Protective Equipment: http://www.msf.org/article/interactive-learn-about-our-ebola-protective-equipment
Intended for people responsible for the planning and running of a dispensary during an emergency situation
Practical guide for doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, medical auxiliaries and logisticians
Guide pratique à l’usage des médecins, infirmiers, techniciens de laboratoire, auxiliaires de santé et logisticiens
NOVEMBER 2012
This document serves as an update to “Out of the Dark”, a report published by MSF in October 2011, highlighting the need to prioritise the long-neglected area of paediatric tuberculosis (TB). This update will outline the key improvements and setbacks—the ‘highlights’ and ‘...lowlights’—that have occurred over the last year.
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Guide pratique à l’usage des sages-femmes, médecins spécialisés en obstétrique et personnel de santé devant faire face à des urgences obstétricales. Ce guide a été conçu comme un outil qui permette de protéger la mère et son enfant dans un environnement défavorable. Il est destiné a...ux sages-femmes, médecins spécialisés en obstétrique et personnel de santé devant faire face à des urgences obstétricales.
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MSF International AIDS Working Group
This Tuberculosis guide has been developed jointly by Médecins Sans Frontières and Partners In Health. It aims at providing useful information to the clinicians and health staff for the comprehensive management of tuberculosis. Forms of susceptible and resistant tuberculosis, tuberculosis in child...ren, and HIV co-infection are all fully addressed.
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For those with smartphones, you can install the free ‘MSF Guidance’ app by the Open Medicine Project from the app store. It includes the MSF guidelines on Ebola and Marburg virus disease. MSF guidance is an easily searchable app with all the latest MSF clinical protocols and essential drug info...rmation for medical field workers. All content can be downloaded before mission and accessed at any time.
MSF Guidance for Android devices:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.msf.medical.guidelines&hl=en_US&gl=US
MSF Guidance for Apple devices:
https://apps.apple.com/si/app/msf-medical-guidelines/id1282995934
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Paediatrics and International Child Health 2013 VOL. 33 NO. 4, pp.259-272. Open Access.