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NAIROBI, KENYA, JANUARY 11, 2013—The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders is providing psychological and medical support to traumatized survivors of conflict in the Tana Delta region of Kenya’s Coast Province. Beginning in August 2012, a series of violent clashes have killed and wounded hundreds of people and driven more … Read more
09/01/2013- In June, Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) / Doctors Without Borders opened a hospital in the Idlib region in northern Syria, an area under rebel control. Located behind the front lines, the hospital has 15 beds and a staff of approximately 50, including 10 international MSF workers. Designed to perform war surgery, the facility also offers … Read more
January 8, 2013- Three years after a massive earthquake battered the island nation of Haiti on January 12, 2010, the Haitian health care system remains mired in a state of devastation. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, which was present in the country before the earthquake and responded with its largest-ever emergency relief effort, … Read more
Sudanese refugees have begun crossing the border into South Sudan again More than 170,000 people who have fled violence in Sudan are living in refugee camps in South Sudan. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been assisting the refugees since November 2011, running field hospitals and providing safe drinking water. Now that the flooding caused by … Read more
Three years after the 2010 earthquake, the Haitian healthcare system is still devastated. On 12 January 2010, most hospitals in the earthquake zone were either destroyed or seriously damaged. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to manage four hospitals built to replace the temporary structures that it set up immediately after the earthquake, where tens of … Read more
The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called upon the Union health ministry and the drug regulators in the country to work together to ensure that multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients, who are left with few options, benefit from new TB drug bedaquiline, which has been approved by the US FDA for the first time since … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has resumed medical activities at its maternity hospital in Khost Province, Afghanistan, which were suspended following an explosion in the hospital in April, 2012. 02/01/2013 The reopening follows the demonstration of strong support to MSF, and reassurance over the last few months by the local community and all relevant … Read more
Our medical teams often witness violence, atrocities, and neglect in the course of their work, much of which occurs in places that rarely receive international attention. The stories below represent our effort to bear witness to these crises on behalf of our patients.
Medical doctor and medical team leader in Kitgum I’m gonna raise an army, some tough sons-of-bitches I’ll recruit my army from the orphanages. Bob Dylan – Thunder on the Mountain Twenty years of internal conflict in northern Uganda have generated an officially recognised humanitarian crisis: an acute medical emergency compounded by a lack of access … Read more
December 29, 2012 – It is with great sadness that Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) remembers that one year has passed since our two colleagues, Philippe Havet and Andrias Karel Keiluhu (“Kace”), were brutally murdered in Mogadishu. Philippe, a 53-year-old emergency coordinator from Belgium, and Kace, a 44-year-old medical doctor from Indonesia, … Read more