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Lipi Upadhyay

DRC: Extra humanitarian assistance urgently needed in southern North Kivu crisis

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KINSHASA – For years, the territories of Masisi, Walikale and Rutshuru, in the southern part of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, have been plagued with armed violence and banditry. In the past months, these armed clashes have intensified, further aggravating the dire humanitarian situation, leading to significant numbers of displaced people and worrying signs of malnutrition, sexual … Read more

“They suffer in silence”: Meeting mental healthcare needs of refugees in Bangladesh

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“Men can spend time outdoors; the women have to spend most of their time in their shacks. There is no privacy or physical space where they can be alone,” says Pooja Iyer, MSF’s mental health manager at the Jamtoli and Hakimpara camps for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar. Iyer has been in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh … Read more

MSF: $262 million subsidy should not go to pharma giants Pfizer and GSK for pneumonia vaccine

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New Delhi – Ahead of this week’s board meeting of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in New Delhi, India, Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on board members to immediately stop paying out funds from a remaining US$262 million subsidy to the pharmaceutical corporations Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for the pneumococcal vaccine. MSF called for … Read more

Bangladesh: Rohingya refugee crisis: Unseen wounds need to heal

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A loudspeaker from the mosque in Jamtoli comes to life at an unscheduled hour. Instead of the midday call to prayer, an imam asks his listeners to pay attention to their daily anxieties and seek help at the nearby MSF primary health centre. “The community trusts me, I believe mental health programmes are needed for … Read more

HIV/AIDS: AIDS death toll stagnating due to lack of testing at community level

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KIGALI/BRUSSELS – 1 DECEMBER 2019 — Hundreds of thousands of people continue to die from advanced HIV, also known as AIDS, because countries are still ill-equipped to detect and treat people suffering through advanced stages of the disease, according to a new report released today by MSF. Delays in responding quickly to treatment failures and interruptions jeopardise … Read more

European leaders: Stop punishing asylum seekers on the Greek islands

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Open letter by Dr Christos Christou, International President, Médecins Sans Frontières Dear European leaders I have just come back from the Greek islands, and I was shocked by what I saw and by the accounts I heard from my colleagues on the ground. They told me about a 12-year-old boy who came to our clinic … Read more

Delhi: Walk through MSF sexual and gender-based violence project

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Meet Dr Yashoda Kurra. She works as a medical doctor at MSF’s sexual and gender-based violence project in Jahangirpuri, Delhi. MSF SGBV project is a 24X7 clinic where MSF teams provide free-of-cost quality medical and psychological care to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. Our team also works raise awareness in the community on the … Read more

Mediterranean migration: Survivors disembark in Italy amidst deadly week in the Mediterranean

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Amsterdam/Marseille – As the 213 people rescued by the Ocean Viking last week disembarked in Messina, Italy, SOS MEDITERRANEE and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have repeated their calls to EU governments to cease hindering lifesaving Search and Rescue (SAR) operations, and to ensure a sustained and coordinated response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the central Mediterranean. More than … Read more

Niger: Fifteen years treating malnutrition and malaria around the clock

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Every year, the combination of ‘hunger gap’ and rainy season triggers a spike in rates of malnutrition and malaria in southern Niger – particularly from July to October. Since the large-scale food crisis of 2005, the prevention and treatment of childhood diseases has greatly advanced: from ready-to-use therapeutic meals to more decentralised, comprehensive, patient-centred approaches. Hundreds of … Read more