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Bangui / Barcelona: Medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the killing on last Thursday of their colleague Gaulbert Mokafe, an assistant nurse at the Batangafo hospital, at the hands of an armed group. Gaulbert Mokafe MSF once again calls on all armed groups involved in the conflict in the Central African … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has put on hold the admission of all patients to Al Sadaqah hospital in Aden following the kidnapping and killing of a patient. On the morning of 2 April 2019, a group of armed men threatened guards and medical staff at MSF’s emergency trauma hospital in Aden before entering … Read more
Sian Geraty is an emergency medicine specialist from South Africa. For the past six months, she has been working in Sadr City, a crowded neighborhood of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. She describes how MSF has helped bring order to the chaos of one busy hospital’s emergency room. “When people think of MSF, they often … Read more
One year ago people in Gaza began holding demonstrations and being shot by the Israeli forces every week near the fence between the two territories. The medical, human and financial toll in the blockaded enclave has become unbearable as thousands of people have been left to cope with devastating wounds. Despite the efforts of the … Read more
Background A weather system that produced heavy rains flooded parts of Malawi in early March 2019, before developing into Cyclone Idai which struck Mozambique and Zimbabwe on 14-16 March 2019. Flooding in Malawi has displaced 87,000 people in camps, with the district of Makhanga one of the worst affected areas, which remains an island, cut … Read more
On 27 March 2019, the government in Mozambique declared cases of cholera had been seen in the city of Beira, one of the hardest hit during Cyclone Idai two weeks previously. Our teams are scaling up our activities to respond to the disease, seeing more than 100 suspected cases of cholera per day. “Given the … Read more
With 84,000 cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis, India has the highest burden of DR-TB in the world. In Mumbai, MSF has been providing not just medical treatment but holistic care to people living with DR-TB. Watch this video to find out more.
Tripoli – Refugees and migrants arbitrarily held in Sabaa detention centre in Tripoli are suffering from alarming rates of acute malnutrition, while some were recently locked in a small room with only 0.7 m2 of space per person, says international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). There are currently over 300 detainees in Sabaa, … Read more
A thin-framed Kamla* looked around, unsure whether she was at the right place, and hesitating whether to share her experience or not. This was the first time she was visiting MSF’s SGBV clinic on the recommendation of an MSF health educator. Reassured by the friendliness of the counsellor, who promised her complete privacy, Kamla felt … Read more
Seven months into the largest ever Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Ebola response is failing to bring the epidemic under control in a climate of deepening community mistrust, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said at a press conference in Geneva today. Since the beginning of the year, more than 40% … Read more