The recent executive orders on migration from the U.S. administration leave hundreds of thousands of people along the Latin American migration corridor in even greater uncertainty, exposed to heightened risks on a route already marked by extreme violence, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned today. MSF teams in Mexico are already witnessing the harmful effects of … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders are mourning the loss of 31-year-old Nasser Hamdi Abdelatif Al Shalfouh, our MSF colleague. Nasser was killed by shrapnel injuries he suffered to his legs and chest on October 8 in Jabalia, North Gaza. Since October 7, Jabalia has been under relentless attacks by Israeli forces, and people have remained … Read more
We are in a safe place, for now Maryam, our field communications manager from Beirut, reported from a car as she fled, describing scenes of chaos in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Yesterday (Friday 27/09/2024), we heard and felt a huge series of blasts while we were in meetings at the office. We wrapped up … Read more
Dr Tejshri Shah, General Director of MSF and a paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases, recently returned from North Kivu, an eastern province of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). DRC is the country at the epicentre of the current mpox, previously named monkeypox, epidemic in Africa. She emphasises that containing the virus in sites for displaced people will be impossible unless … Read more
On Tuesday, September 3, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance carrying a patient in critical condition was stopped by police in Port-au-Prince and detained, preventing our team from providing the necessary care. The patient was suffering from an open fracture and in urgent need of hospital care. Held for more than an hour, the patient … Read more
DRC/Geneva, 16 August 2024 – On 13 August 2024, the Africa CDC declared the mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) recognised the Africa CDC’s declaration and were relieved that the World Health Organization (WHO) on 14 August declared the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic … Read more
On the evening of 26 June 2024, the Israeli authorities shared several new posts on social media about Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member Fadi Al-Wadiya, who was killed by Israeli forces on 25 June, accusing him of being involved in military activities in Gaza. MSF is deeply concerned by these allegations and is taking … Read more
On 29 May, a bill aimed at designating UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, as a terrorist organisation passed a preliminary reading prior to three further readings in Israel’s Parliament, known as the Knesset. A second bill that would lead to the severing of all ties … Read more
MSF delivered the following statement, with accompanying position paper, on recommendations for the UN High-Level Meeting (UNHLM) on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Statement for the Interactive Multi-Stakeholder Hearing as part of the preparatory process for the 2024 High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Panel 2: Addressing antimicrobial access, research and development (R&D), and innovation Thank you, … Read more
MSF calls once again for an immediate and sustained ceasefire to spare the lives of civilians and to allow enough desperately needed aid to enter the enclave. “On May 6, Israeli forces issued an evacuation order for several blocks in eastern Rafah, forcing around 100,000 people to quickly leave the area with nowhere safe to … Read more