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The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated 65 patients confirmed to be diagnosed with Ebola in its first month of intervention in North Kivu. This is more than 80%[1] of the total number of confirmed patients hospitalised in Ebola Treatment Centres so far this epidemic. Of the patients confirmed Ebola … Read more
Floods in Kerala; another Ebola outbreak; critical humanitarian situation in Nigeria’s Borno state; and other stories you might have missed this month An MSF team providing consultations at a medical camp in northern Kerala’s Wayanad district. The worst floods in nearly a century in Kerala have left many dead and lakhs displaced across the … Read more
Tripoli/Amsterdam – Over the past 72 hours following clashes in Tripoli, the lives of Libyans and an already vulnerable group of refugees and migrants have been put in grave danger, according to the medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF reiterates that Libya is not a safe country, and that European governments must acknowledge … Read more
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – One year since over 700,000 Rohingya refugees were forced to flee from Myanmar into Bangladesh, the denial of their legal status, coupled with unacceptable living conditions in haphazard makeshift camps, continues to trap refugees in a cycle of suffering and poor health. On 25 August 2017, the Myanmar Army launched renewed ‘clearance … Read more
Over 900,000 people have been displaced along the border between Gedeo and West Guji zones, respectively in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR) and Oromia regions of Ethiopia, due to a recent surge of inter-communal violence. After an initial assessment of the crisis, MSF has launched an emergency response to address the most … Read more
Abuja/Paris – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started emergency nutritional and paediatric activities in Bama, Borno state, in response to a critical humanitarian situation among newly arrived internally displaced people (IDPs). Lack of adequate assistance, including access to shelter and healthcare, is having severe consequences for young children arriving in the town. MSF calls … Read more
Taking a new step in its response to the current Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a treatment centre on Tuesday 14 August in Mangina, a small town considered to be the epicentre of the outbreak. All patients from the isolation unit where MSF was … Read more
MSF calls on Johnson & Johnson to make key drug bedaquiline affordable for all people who need it Geneva — The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today welcomed the new World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for improved treatment for people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), prioritising the use of several oral drugs, … Read more
Central Mediterranean – Responding to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Central Mediterranean, a total of 141 people were rescued on Friday by the search and rescue vessel Aquarius, chartered by SOS MEDITERRANEE and operated in partnership with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Both organisations are now calling upon European governments to assign the closest … Read more
Amsterdam – Independent humanitarian agencies remain largely blocked from accessing vulnerable communities in northern Rakhine, raising major concerns about unmet medical and humanitarian needs, said the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). On 11 August 2017, two weeks prior to attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and the Myanmar Army’s so-called … Read more