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Nauru: Refugees' lives in danger with MSF forced to end mental healthcare activities

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Nauru/Sydney – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the government of Nauru’s sudden decision to cease the provision of desperately needed mental health care provided by MSF to asylum seekers, refugees and the local community on Nauru. The international humanitarian medical organisation describes the mental health situation of refugees on the island as “beyond … Read more

Healing Minds: MSF and mental health

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Catastrophic events such as war and natural disasters not only affect people’s physical health, but also their mental well-being. That is why mental health services have been an important component of MSF’s emergency work for over two decades. Today, our mental health teams work in nearly 50 countries with people who have lived through difficult … Read more

Hila: Born in Afghanistan

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A comic produced by illustrator Aurélie Neyret about MSF’s busiest maternity ward In one hospital in Khost, in eastern Afghanistan, not far from the Pakistani border, MSF midwives and doctors have helped bring more than 100,000 babies into this world. With more than 60 new little bundles of joy being popped out every day, Khost … Read more

Indonesia: MSF assessing needs following tsumani

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has deployed a local team to Central Sulawesi, Indonesia to conduct an assessment of medical and humanitarian needs in coordination with the national response mechanism. The team is composed of medical, logistics, and water and sanitation specialists. MSF will continue to provide updates on further developments. This is the … Read more

Yemen: MSF suspends activities after attack in Ad Dhale

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Amsterdam/ Sanaa – The staff house of the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Ad Dhale governorate, southern Yemen, was targeted with explosives on Monday evening, 1 October 2018. Fortunately, nobody was harmed. This was the second attack against the MSF house in less than a week.  MSF strongly condemns the … Read more

Field of Vision: September 2018

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Snakebites; mental health emergency in Lesbos; sexual violence in the Central African Republic; and other stories you might have missed this month   Banywich Bone had to have his leg amputated above the knee after being bitten by a snake in South Sudan.  19 September was observed as the first-ever International Snakebite Awareness Day. Every year, … Read more

MSF response to first-ever UN tuberculosis summit

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Sharonann Lynch, HIV & TB advisor for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) Access Campaign, made the following statement today following the first-ever United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis (TB): “The good news is this historic meeting happened at a time when the world is equipped with new, more effective medicines and diagnostics to fight … Read more