Five years of war, political instability and lack of medical facilities have left many Syrian wounded people vulnerable to take a long journey from acute surgery to rehabilitation to rebuild their bodies and minds, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report launched in Jordan on December 20, 215. MSF’s new report life … Read more
Brussels, 07 January 2016: Since July 2015, a siege has been imposed by the Syrian government forces around the town of Madaya, near the border with Lebanon in Syria’s Rural Damascus Governorate. Since the single one-off food distribution on 18 October, this has been tightened to a total stranglehold siege. Around 20,000 residents of the … Read more
Geneva/New York, January 7, 2015- A malaria drug may have reduced risk of dying among a group of Ebola patients in Liberia during the height of the outbreak in 2014, according to a retrospective study published by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and its research arm Epicentre, in the … Read more
More Than 500,000 People Worldwide Call on White House to Consent to Independent Investigation of U.S. Military Attack on MSF Hospital in Afghanistan WASHINGTON, D.C., DECEMBER 9, 2015 — The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today delivered a petition signed by more than 547,000 people to the White … Read more
MSF calls for companies to make new drugs to treat drug-resistant TB available and affordable Cape Town, 3 December 2015—Nearly three years since the first of two new tuberculosis (TB) medicines became available, the drugs remain out of reach for people who need them, with just two percent of people eligible for these treatments actually … Read more
Amsterdam/Taiz, 3 December 2015 – An airstrike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition has hit a clinic in southern Yemen run by international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), wounding nine people, including two MSF staff. According to local sources, at 11.20 on 2 December, three airstrikes targeted a … Read more
Urgent phase-out needed for outdated policies of mandatory hospitalisation, re-treatment regimens that contribute to drug resistance, and sub-optimal diagnosis Geneva/Cape Town, 2 December 2015 – Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Stop TB Partnership today released the second edition of the Out of Step report, a 24-country survey of policies and … Read more
Brussels, 21 November 2015: At 2:30pm local time on Thursday 19 November, an aerial attack was launched on Erbin, one of the besieged zones to the east of Damascus. Half an hour later, at approximately 3:00pm, when seven wounded were arriving for urgent war-wound treatment, two missiles exploded just outside the entrance of the Doctors … Read more
Reveals the view from inside the hospital before, during & after airstrikes Kabul/Brussels/New York, 5 November 2015 — The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today released to the public an internal document that reviews the 3 October airstrikes by US forces on its hospital in northern Afghanistan. The chronological review of the … Read more
MSF urges 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council to stop the massacres in Syria 31 October 2015, Brussels — At least 70 people have been killed and 550 injured in an airstrike on a marketplace in the Douma neighbourhood near Damascus, Syria, the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans … Read more