Project updates

Severe Acute Malnutrition is more than just a socio-economic problem – it is a medical condition that needs urgent attention.

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New Delhi/Darbhanga (Bihar), September 1, 2014 – The international medical humanitarian organisation, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working in Bihar’s northern district of Darbhanga since 2009 toward providing curative treatment to severely acute malnourished (SAM) children. SAM is a condition that results from acute decrease in food consumption leading to wasting or loss … Read more

MSF offers condolences to HIV community in wake of flight MH17 crash

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expresses our condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of those onboard the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 that crashed in Ukraine yesterday. MSF is deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of many people from the HIV community – leading scientists, researchers, activists and allies among them – who … Read more

Gaza: a population under siege

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  The intensity of bombings in the Israeli military operation “Protective Edge” makes it extremely dangerous for the population and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Gaza to move around. As of today, hospitals in Gaza are managing to cope with the influx of wounded arriving. However, the new crisis is aggravating an … Read more

MSF donates ambulance to Mon District Hospital, Nagaland

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Mon, July 4, 2014: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) donated an ambulance previously being used by MSF to the Department of Health & Family Welfare (DoH&FW) in Kohima for Mon District Hospital. As MSF officially departs its project site in Mon in July 2014, the organisation decided to donate its ambulance to keep the process … Read more

For women in Pakistan to deliver a baby is a battle between life and death

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Interview With Cecilio Tan, Medical Coordinator of MSF in Pakistan One woman dies nearly every hour in Pakistan from complications of giving birth. The maternal mortality rate is even higher in Balochistan than the rest of the country. The largest but least populated province has some of the lowest national developmental indicators. A third of … Read more

West Africa: Ebola epidemic now out of control

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  With Ebola continuing to spread in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia (Jump to map) bringing the epidemic under control will require a massive deployment of resources by governments in West Africa and aid organisations, according to the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), while warning that it has reached the limits … Read more