Since late-2013, violence in northern and western Iraq has increased dramatically in scale and intensity, with grave consequences for civilians caught in the crossfire between the Iraqi army and opposition armed groups. In recent weeks, some 500,000 people have reportedly fled Iraq’s second city, Mosul, after it came under the control of armed opposition groups. … Read more
Following heavy clashes this week in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided medical supplies, including dressings, bandages, syringes, antibiotics, and stretchers, to three public hospitals in Donetsk and one public hospital in Luhansk. “A number of hospitals in Donetsk have faced a shortage … Read more
Abdulbaset Alzamar is a Yemeni nurse working with HIV positive patients with MSF and the Yemen Ministry of Health. He talks about his experience providing live-saving ARV treatment to patients as unrest tore the capital, Sana’a, apart. In late 2010 and the beginning of 2011, the situation in my country started to deteriorate. First, there … Read more
Since one week, renewed clashes between Christian youths and young Muslims have been producing more victims in Bangui. Some of them have been treated at the General Hospital, where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports the emergency surgery service. 16:00 Wednesday 28 May, General Hospital of Bangui. “There is fighting in PK5 . “ … Read more
The cholera outbreak in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, continues to spread. The latest official statistics report 733 cholera cases. The majority of cases continue to be treated in the main Ministry of Health hospital in the city, Juba Teaching Hospital, where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has sent four staff to … Read more
23 May 2014, Juba – More than 315 cholera cases have been recorded in South Sudan since the Ministry of Health (MoH) officially declared an outbreak in the capital, Juba, on 15 May 2014. In other locations around the country there have been suspected cases that are awaiting laboratory confirmation. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières … Read more
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today confirmed that five of its staff members held in Syria have been safely released. The organization strongly condemns this abduction, which has forced the permanent closure of one of its hospitals and two health centers in the Jabal Akkrad region in northwestern … Read more
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing care in the Solomon Islands, a large group of islands in Oceania, to people displaced from their homes by devastating flash floods in early April. Some 10,000 people were left homeless in the capital, Honiara, after floods swept away riverside communities, brought down bridges, destroyed roads, and … Read more
“My 10 year old daughter decided to follow me when I visited a friend at the hospital. She managed to escape from my sister’s and got on a bus. But she never found me. Instead I got a call from the police: she had been taken by a stranger and raped. I could not stop … Read more
Conakry, May 2 – Although recent days have seen fewer Ebola patients in the structures in Guinea – run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health – the outbreak is not over and full teams remain in place to deal with a spike in new cases. “We remain … Read more