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Following the recent offensive by forces loyal to President Hadi and supported by the Saudi and Emirati-led international coalition on Hodeidah, Doctors Without Borders/Sans Frontières (MSF) has opened a 20-bed surgical field hospital in Mocha, 180 kilometres south of Hodeidah, to respond to increased medical needs. More than 70 MSF staff are working in the … Read more
During the first week of intervention, our teams have set up isolation and treatment units in the epicentre of the crisis and are providing support for the local health system to remain fully functional. MSF continues to work on other projects in the region. The tenth Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo was … Read more
Marseille/Amsterdam – The rescue boat Aquarius, run in partnership between SOS MEDITERRANEE and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), sets sail today from Marseille after an extended port call. Aquarius is heading back to the Central Mediterranean in order to render assistance to persons in distress at sea. “The Central Mediterranean route is the deadliest in … Read more
The end of Ebola; medical needs in Mosul; nutritional crisis in Chad; and other stories you might have missed this month Congolese health workers celebrate as the first frontline worker is vaccinated in Bikoro, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Ministry of Health in the DRC officially declared the Ebola epidemic over on 24 … Read more
On 24 July 2018, the Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) officially declared the country’s Ebola epidemic over. The outbreak was declared on 8 May 2018, in northeast DRC. “Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes this announcement and the end of the Ebola epidemic,” says MSF medical director Dr Micaela … Read more
Virginia is a Malawian sex worker living in Beira, Mozambique. She works to support her nephew and nieces after their parents died from HIV. Virginia recently found out she was HIV positive but is afraid to start treatment, for a number of reasons. “A month ago, I found out that I had HIV. I don’t … Read more
US government exerting extreme pressure, threatening not to endorse declaration New York – Countries negotiating the final declaration text for the first-ever UN High-level Meeting on Tuberculosis in September are being put under significant pressure to drop all references to protecting countries’ rights to take fully-legal actions to access affordable medicines for their people, Doctors … Read more
RCEP trade deal could cut medicines lifeline for people in developing countries Bangkok/Geneva – As the sixteen countries negotiating Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement meet in Bangkok this week for another round of closed-door negotiations, public health experts and the international medical humanitarian organization – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warn that the … Read more
One year since the battle between the Islamic State (IS) group and the Iraqi forces officially ended in Mosul, the health system is still in ruins and struggling to cope as thousands of people continue to return to the city, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. During the conflict, nine out of 13 … Read more
Name : Designation : Miriam Alia, an MSF vaccination expert, has just returned from Equateur province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Miriam worked as a medical referent in the area of Itipo, the epicentre of the recent outbreak. She explains how MSF took part in the ring vaccination against the disease and tells … Read more