BRUSSELS/NEW YORK, January 17, 2013—As bombings and combat continue in multiple locations in Mali, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all parties to the conflict to authorize humanitarian organizations to enter the area of Konna and to allow aid to be provided in all areas affected by fighting. MSF … Read more
Thousands of people fleeing violence have taken refuge in the bush, living without proper shelter or safe drinking water, in parts of the Central African Republic (CAR). Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is providing emergency care and negotiating for access to areas where medical staff have fled and healthcare is no longer available. As … Read more
At least 20 people were killed and 99 were injured when warplanes bombed a market in Azaz, northern Syria on 13th January, according to the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Twenty of the wounded, all of them civilians, were treated in an MSF medical facility. The attack on the market in … Read more
NAIROBI, KENYA, JANUARY 11, 2013—The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders is providing psychological and medical support to traumatized survivors of conflict in the Tana Delta region of Kenya’s Coast Province. Beginning in August 2012, a series of violent clashes have killed and wounded hundreds of people and driven more … Read more
09/01/2013- In June, Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) / Doctors Without Borders opened a hospital in the Idlib region in northern Syria, an area under rebel control. Located behind the front lines, the hospital has 15 beds and a staff of approximately 50, including 10 international MSF workers. Designed to perform war surgery, the facility also offers … Read more
January 8, 2013- Three years after a massive earthquake battered the island nation of Haiti on January 12, 2010, the Haitian health care system remains mired in a state of devastation. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, which was present in the country before the earthquake and responded with its largest-ever emergency relief effort, … Read more
Sudanese refugees have begun crossing the border into South Sudan again More than 170,000 people who have fled violence in Sudan are living in refugee camps in South Sudan. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been assisting the refugees since November 2011, running field hospitals and providing safe drinking water. Now that the flooding caused by … Read more
Three years after the 2010 earthquake, the Haitian healthcare system is still devastated. On 12 January 2010, most hospitals in the earthquake zone were either destroyed or seriously damaged. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to manage four hospitals built to replace the temporary structures that it set up immediately after the earthquake, where tens of … Read more
The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called upon the Union health ministry and the drug regulators in the country to work together to ensure that multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients, who are left with few options, benefit from new TB drug bedaquiline, which has been approved by the US FDA for the first time since … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has resumed medical activities at its maternity hospital in Khost Province, Afghanistan, which were suspended following an explosion in the hospital in April, 2012. 02/01/2013 The reopening follows the demonstration of strong support to MSF, and reassurance over the last few months by the local community and all relevant … Read more