Photo Credit: Thomas Glass/ICRC SANA’A/GENEVA– The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are extremely concerned about the severe damage caused by recent Coalition attacks on airports in Sana’a and Hodeida, obstructing delivery of much needed humanitarian assistance and movement of humanitarian personnel. “Yemen depends almost completely on imports of … Read more
Malta: This weekend more than 6000 people were rescued in several operations on the Mediterranean Sea while making the treacherous crossing from Libya to Europe. Three hundred and sixty nine of those were rescued by the MY Phoenix a search and rescue vessel run in partnership by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and MOAS (Migrant … Read more
Sana’a – At least 11 people have been killed and 67 injured since 21 April during constant airstrikes and shelling in Haradh district, northwestern Yemen, said the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders today. The 67 wounded were treated by MSF medical staff in Haradh public hospital, which is supported by MSF. … Read more
The international medical humanitarian medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is sending 8 teams to assist those affected by the Earthquake in Nepal. Four MSF teams departed this morning from Bihar state in India and are currently at the border with Nepal clearing with authorities before heading to the areas affected … Read more
Rome, 19 April 2015 – Faced with another tragedy in the Mediterranean sea, European Member States must urgently launch large-scale search and rescue activities in order to avoid more deaths at sea, the medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said today. “A mass grave is being created in the Mediterranean … Read more
New Delhi: Public Health Nutrition, a Cambridge University Press journal, has nominated MSF’s qualitative study entitled, ‘Health-seeking behaviour and community perceptions of childhood undernutrition and a community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programme in rural Bihar, India: a qualitative study,’ as the journal’s Paper of the Month. Published online, the study is based on narrative … Read more
A year after the mass killings of civilians in the oil town of Bentiu in South Sudan, including people sheltering in the hospital where MSF was running an HIV/TB project, the violence and displacement have continued and access to basic healthcare and food remains a problem for people living in rural areas outside the town. … Read more
Photo Credit : Mudit Mathur Berlin/New Delhi, 13-April-15: On the occasion of the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Germany, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to refrain from pushing for harmful IP provisions in the EU-India free trade agreement which is currently under negotiation. The EU-India Free Trade Agreement … Read more
Copyright : MSF Sana’a, 08 April 2015 – The first boat organised by international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) carrying 1.7 tonnes of urgently needed medical supplies for the MSF hospital in Aden successfully docked in the city today. An MSF emergency surgical team also arrived on a separate boat. The MSF shipment … Read more
New Delhi/Patna, April 6, 2015: The international humanitarian medical organisation, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recently published evidence from its community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programme in Bihar, which revealed that it has successfully achieved a cure rate of 88.4% among severely acute malnourished children who completed their treatment.This conclusion was part of … Read more