Over the past seven weeks, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team has run mobile clinics by boat to deliver medical and humanitarian aid to five islands south of Guiuan that were affected by Typhoon Haiyan. The team includes a doctor, two nurses, a psychologist, a translator, and two Filipino health workers. They can … Read more
“The Bayer CEO going on record to say that they did not develop a cancer medicine for Indians but only for ‘western patients who can afford it’ sums up everything that is wrong with the multinational pharmaceutical industry. Bayer is effectively admitting that the drugs they develop are deliberately going to be rationed to the … Read more
The “Anti-homosexuality Bill” has been rejected, but the existing laws still hamper access to HIV prevention and care Kampala – The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is relieved that the President of Uganda, H.E. Yoweri Museveni, has rejected the “anti-homosexuality” bill that was passed on December 20th 2013 by the Ugandan Parliament. … Read more
In the past month alone, more than 89,000 South Sudanese people have fled the country and crossed into Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda to escape fighting in their homeland. At present, there are still more than 1,000 people per day undertaking long journeys by foot, bus, or truck, bringing only what they carry, and arriving across … Read more
Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, has been in the grip of violence for weeks but most of the city’s hospitals are no longer functioning. MSF project coordinator Jessie Gaffric describes the situation. She is managing our operations in the city’s only trauma unit, located in the Community Hospital. Since fighting began in … Read more
Heavy fighting in South Sudan’s Upper Nile, Unity and Jonglei states has left thousands of people newly displaced and hundreds wounded, says the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). During the recent fighting, MSF teams treated 116 people with gunshot wounds in Malakal and Nasir, Upper Nile state. “The fighting in … Read more
Juba/Amsterdam, 10 January 2014 – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the looting of its facilities yesterday in Bentiu, capital of Unity State in South Sudan. MSF was one of the few remaining humanitarian organisations present in the town providing assistance to internally displaced people and wounded at the hospital. This looting jeopardizes … Read more
10 January 2014 – A week after five international staff members were taken from an Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) house in northern Syria on the evening of January 2, 2014, MSF continues to put all efforts toward securing their safe return. Our missing colleagues are from Belgium, Denmark, Peru, Sweden and Switzerland. They … Read more
MSF concerned for civilians displaced by clashes in Katanga province Clashes between Mai-Mai militias and government forces have been rocking the area around Shamwana, Katanga province, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since November. Villages in the area have been burned to the ground, and people have fled to neighbouring villages or into … Read more
Bangui, 8 January 2014 – Following confirmation of measles cases among children in several camps for internally displaced people in Bangui, Central African Republic, MSF is vaccinating 68,000 children in five camps in the city in order to prevent an outbreak. Hundreds of thousands of people are currently displaced in camps around Bangui as a … Read more