MSF calls for the opening of a safe and legal passage at the land border between Turkey and Greece Brussels/Athens, 3 December 2015 – A joint operation to rescue people risking their lives on the dangerous sea crossing between Turkey and Greece has been launched by international medical organisation Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières … Read more
Stock outs need to be urgently tackled to allow acceleration of the fight against HIV/AIDS Johannesburg/Harare, November 30th 2015 – The international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today warned that lifesaving antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) are routinely not making their way to patients in sub-Saharan Africa, most often despite sufficient stocks already being … Read more
Attributed to Christopher Stokes, MSF General Director The US version of events presented today leaves MSF with more questions than answers. It is shocking that an attack can be carried out when US forces have neither eyes on a target nor access to a no-strike list, and have malfunctioning communications systems. It appears that 30 … Read more
An interview with Sebastien Stein, Bourbon Argos Emergency Coordinator What situation are you expecting on the central Mediterranean in the coming months? First of all, we expect fewer boats to leave the Libyan coast due to the weather and sea conditions, so the number of boats which find themselves in distress will be fewer. That … Read more
The number of patients treated by MSF on a weekly basis in the UN Protection of Civilians Camp (PoC) in Malakal has tripled since June, as the health of the population sheltering in the camp is being jeopardised by overcrowding and substandard living conditions. Presently, almost 48,000 people are living in the Malakal PoC following … Read more
Kisto Devi likes to sing. For more than ten years now, Kisto has been using her voice to spread health messages in her community. She is an Accredited Social Health Activist or ASHA, tirelessly reaching out to hundreds of villagers through her songs. ASHAs, meaning hope in Hindi, are women who are identified, trained and … Read more
The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone was declared over on 7 November, but in neighbouring Guinea, people are still being infected by a disease which has claimed more than 11,000 lives in West Africa. But despite the unprecedented scale of the epidemic, there is still much that we do not know about Ebola. How long … Read more
Jahangirpuri (Delhi), November 5, 2015 – The international medical humanitarian organisation, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), inaugurated a treatment centre for survivors of sexual and gender based violence, today in New Delhi. MSF SGBV clinic located at Mahendra Park, Jahangirpuri (North District, Delhi) will provide medical assistance to the survivors of sexual assault … Read more
According to the World Health Organization’s World Tuberculosis Report 2015, released 28 October, only one in four (26%) of the 480,000 people estimated to have developed multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) in 2014 was diagnosed. Worse, the total number of people diagnosed with MDR-TB globally in 2014 was actually lower than the previous year (123,000 in 2014 … Read more
At least 35 Syrian patients and medical staff have been killed, and 72 wounded, in a significant increase of air strikes on hospitals in Northern Syria, according to health staff supported by Doctorss Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) inside Syria. The escalation of attacks, which began in late September, have targeted 12 hospitals … Read more