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SYRIA: Half a million more people under siege as intense bombing in Damascus region results in one of the bloodiest months since conflict began

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Brussels, 11/09/2015 – Makeshift hospitals supported by medical emergency organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have reported a series of extreme mass-casualty influxes resulting from 20 consecutive days of intense bombing attacks in August on markets and civilian buildings in the besieged communities of East Ghouta, near the Syrian capital. At least 150 patients … Read more

Two MSF aid workers killed in South Sudan as fighting continues in Unity state

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Two aid workers from the international humanitarian medical organisation Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been killed in South Sudan. Last week, Gawar Top Puoy, a logistician who had worked for MSF since 2009, was killed during an attack on the village of Wulu.  James Gatluak Gatpieny, a community health worker who … Read more

Patients with symptoms of exposure to chemical agents treated by MSF in Aleppo (Syria) amid endless violence against civilians

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A hospital in Aleppo Governorate run by the medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated four patients exhibiting symptoms of exposure to chemical agents on the evening of Friday the 21st.   The patients are a family of four – the two parents, a 3-year-old girl and a 5-day-old newborn baby … Read more

MSF responds to the new round of RCEP negotiations

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As the trade ministers of the 16 countries negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) meet in Kuala Lumpur this week to finalise modalities in the deal, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is calling for the removal of damaging intellectual property provisions in the deal that would risk locking in high drug prices and … Read more

South Sudan: MSF calls for urgent humanitarian access to Upper Nile state

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23 July 2015 – As fighting intensifies in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, and people’s humanitarian needs grow, aid organisations are finding it increasingly difficult to access the most severely affected areas, according to international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF calls on all parties to the conflict to allow … Read more

As HIV burden overwhelmingly shifts to ‘middle-income’ countries, access to affordable medicines is under threat

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Vancouver, 21 July, 2015—At the International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference today, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that middle-income countries (MICs), which will be home to 70% of people living with HIV by 2020, face increasing threats to their ability to access affordable generic medicines, which are crucial to … Read more

MSF releases case study that reveals the organisation’s dilemmas to position itself in the face of the Srebenica events

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1 July 2015 – Twenty years after the events that followed the fall of Srebrenica’s Muslim enclave, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is publishing for the first time the case study ‘MSF and Srebrenica 1993–2003’. The enclave was besieged in 1993 and then seized by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995. During … Read more

EU leaders orchestrating humanitarian crisis on Europe’s shores

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Brussels/Rome, 23 June 2015 – A crisis of human suffering is being created at Europe’s borders, with thousands of people risking life and limb to reach safety in Europe left with little or no assistance. Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns of the shameful consequences of EU member states ignoring their humanitarian … Read more