In a shocking display of indifference, senior United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) officials have refused to improve living conditions for 21,000 displaced people living in a flood-prone part of a UN compound, exposed to waterborne diseases and potential epidemics. UNMISS’s decision not to improve conditions for refugees in Tomping, South Sudan, is a … Read more
Athens/Brussels, 8 April 2014 – A decision by the Greek authorities to detain migrants indefinitely until either they are forcibly returned or they consent to voluntary return is yet another appalling evidence of Greece choosing even harsher treatment for migrants, said the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. This decision, … Read more
Hajipur, Bihar/New Delhi, 4 April, 2014: In a statement issued in advance of the World Health Day on April 7, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on the Bihar government and the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) to recognise and treat Post Kala azar Dermal Leishmaniasis … Read more
Download the report: Invisible Suffering (PDF) Athens/Brussels– The prolonged and systematic detention of migrants and asylum seekers in Greece is having devastating consequences on their health and human dignity, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns today. With Greece currently holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union … Read more
Since Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Holland was ordered to suspend all activities in Rakhine State on 26th February, the organisation has been engaged in high-level discussions with the Union Government of Myanmar on the need to maintain essential medical services for the many hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in the state currently facing … Read more
The Ministry of Health must act to stop drug resistance from spiralling New Delhi/Mumbai, March 21, 2014: Immediate action from the Indian government is needed to prevent the unregulated sale and inappropriate prescription of tuberculosis (TB) drugs in the private healthcare sector, a practice that has had a significant role in the emergence of drug-resistant TB … Read more
Hajipur (Bihar), March 15, 2014: On the third annual Kala Azar Day, international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has emphasised on the need for scaling up awareness about kala azar (Leishmaniasis), its diagnosis and treatment in Bihar for the poorest, most vulnerable communities who make up the majority of people … Read more
Boston/New York, March 6, 2014—Two new studies released today by Epicentre,the research arm of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at CROI, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, point to reductions in new HIV infections in areas where HIV treatment has been greatly expanded. The studies are some of … Read more
Yangon, March 1, 2014- On February 27, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Holland received a written order from the Union Government of Myanmar to cease all operations in the country, which led to a full closure of all MSF Holland clinics on February 28. This act left patients confused and desperately concerned across the whole … Read more
Darbhanga (Bihar), March 1, 2014 -The State Health Society, Bihar,today inaugurated a Malnutrition Intensive Care Unit (MICU) for treating the most complicated cases of severe acute malnutrition in children at the Darbhanga Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in Bihar. The MICU will be operated jointly by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Ministry of Health … Read more