Following the earthquakes in Türkiye and northwest Syria, I've just donated to Médecins sans Frontières Ireland (Doctors without Borders) to help with the response to the crisis there:

https://www.msf.ie/

If you can, please donate.

If you can't, please spread the word.

#Türkiye
#Syria
#MédecinsSansFrontières
#DoctorsWithoutBorders
#Turkey
#Earthquake

Überblick: Neu zugelassene #Arzneimittel im Jahr 2022:

https://pharmakotherapie.blog/2022/12/30/neue-arzneimittel-2022/#more-12174

Mein Top-Newcomer ist #Qdenga, ein vierfacher #Impfstoff gegen das Dengue-Fieber.

Das 2018 als weltweit Erstes zugelassene #Dengvaxia hatte ja noch erhebliche Risiken und keine so gute (tetra-)Wirksamkeit.

#ImpfenSchuetzt #MedecinsSansFrontieres

Via MSF: Innovative trial finds better #treatment for people with #drug-resistant #TB
https://www.msf.org/groundbreaking-trial-finds-better-DR-TB-treatment
#tuberculosis #MedecinsSansFrontieres

MSF cont'd abt their radio advert in UK

#MSF #médecinssansfrontières #disappointed #shocked #yemen #imperialism #colonialism

I thought that many decades of critically reviewing the role of NGOs, and #postcolonialism - deconstructing today's colonialist influences - would have reached more health workers, including yourselves.

Not so, apparently. I hope you will give this some consideration - but if you can produce and authorize such an advert, it may well be a hopeless cause.

#MSF #médecinssansfrontières #disappointed #shocked #yemen #imperialism #colonialism
CW politics

Open message to MSF (who are not on Mastodon afaik)

Dear MSF, today in a radio advert of yours in the UK the speaker goes, concerning your work in Yemen, ""If [we would not help] I genuinely do not know what would happen to these countries and people".

I was studying development economics in 1971 when you were formed. Have always followed your activities with interest. But this???

Good morning!

From next door comes the rattle-rattle of our two kids (6,11) playing Dwarf Mine, interspersed with declarations of the number resulting and shouts of some glee at each outcome.

I bought #DwarfMine by #PaperDiceGames earlier this year as part of a bundle benefiting #MedecinsSansFrontieres it’s been a huge hit. It’s a solo game - they play in parallel.

They don’t know it yet, but they’re getting a couple of the expansions for Christmas.
https://paperdicegames.com/dwarf-mine/

That should of course have been the *1980s*.
Anyway, on Stephen Schneider's theme that there is not much point knowing about something and not doing anything about it, #MSF are accepting donations for #HornOfAfrica and other vulnerable regions here:
#MedecinsSansFrontieres #DoctorsWithoutBorders #LægerUdenGrænse

https://www.msf.org/donate

Après les inondations au Pakistan, l’urgence de décontaminer les puits domestiques

Dans la région de Peshawar, de nombreux puits ont été contaminés au domicile des particuliers touchés par les #inondations, rendant l’eau impropre à la consommation. #MédecinsSansFrontières s’est donné pour mission de faire le tour des villages en vue de les assainir.

› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/101122/apres-les-inondations-au-pakistan-l-urgence-de-decontaminer-les-puits-domestiques

Après les inondations au Pakistan, l’urgence de décontaminer les puits domestiques

Dans la région de Peshawar, de nombreux puits ont été contaminés au domicile des particuliers touchés par les #inondations, rendant l’eau impropre à la consommation. #MédecinsSansFrontières s’est donné pour mission de faire le tour des villages en vue de les assainir.

› https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/101122/apres-les-inondations-au-pakistan-l-urgence-de-decontaminer-les-puits-domestiques