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Each year, the arrival of the rainy season in Niger brings with it heightened risks of catching malaria from the mosquitoes that breed in stagnant water. To help prevent the spread of the disease, which can be fatal, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) carried out an initial round of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), a … Read more
After working continuously in Somalia since 1991, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today announced the closure of all its programmes in Somalia, the result of extreme attacks on its staff in an environment where armed groups and civilian leaders increasingly support, tolerate, or condone the killing, assaulting, and abducting … Read more
Abuse and Manipulation of Humanitarian Action End 22 Years of Medical Aid in Somalia; Armed Groups and Civilian Leadership Support and Tolerance of Violent Attacks Against MSF Undermine Minimum Security Guarantees for Maintaining Assistance Programs NAIROBI, NEW YORK, August 14, 2013—After working continuously in Somalia since 1991, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without … Read more
A measles outbreak in northern Nigeria’s Katsina State has come to an end after 28 weeks. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported the Nigerian authorities throughout the outbreak by providing epidemiological surveillance and case management in Katsina’s 34 local government areas. The outbreak began in December 2012 in the southern part of the state … Read more
GOMA,DRC/NEW YORK, AUGUST 9, 2013—Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to suspend medical activities in and around the town of Pinga, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), following a threat targeting its humanitarian staff. The suspension will worsen an already dire health and humanitarian situation in the Pinga … Read more
On Monday, 5th of August, a group of armed men attacked a car belonging to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on a main road outside Juba. Two MSF staff members were seriously injured, one of them died from his injuries two days later. The car was clearly marked as belonging to MSF. The exact … Read more
On Monday, 5th of August, a group of armed men attacked a car belonging to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on a main road outside Juba. Two MSF staff members were seriously injured, one of them died from his injuries two days later. The car was clearly marked as belonging to MSF. The exact circumstances of … Read more
GENEVA/NEW YORK AUGUST 8, 2013—As Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) begins vaccinating children against pneumonia in a refugee camp in South Sudan, the international medical humanitarian organization warned today that the global vaccination community is neglecting to provide new vaccines to crisis-affected children. While planning to immunize children against pneumococcal diseases in the Yida … Read more
PARIS/NEW YORK, AUGUST 6, 2013—The majority of people who died while fleeing central Darfur, Sudan, earlier in the year perished as a result of violence, and mostly by gunfire, according to a retrospective mortality survey released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Between January and May 2013, tens … Read more
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN/NEW YORK, AUGUST 1, 2013 – An estimated 100,000 displaced people who fled violence in South Sudan’s southern Jonglei State are still in dire need of access to emergency medical care, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. This massive population displacement, which began in May and … Read more