Hajipur, Bihar/New Delhi, 4 April, 2014: In a statement issued in advance of the World Health Day on April 7, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on the Bihar government and the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) to recognise and treat Post Kala azar Dermal Leishmaniasis … Read more
Twenty years after the Rwandan Genocide, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has published an in-depth examination of its response to the crisis, part of a new series of case studies providing insight into MSF’s public advocacy over the last 40 years. The first of the new “Speaking Out Case … Read more
Download the report: Invisible Suffering (PDF) Athens/Brussels– The prolonged and systematic detention of migrants and asylum seekers in Greece is having devastating consequences on their health and human dignity, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns today. With Greece currently holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union … Read more
For the past several weeks, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Ethiopia have been providing assistance to South Sudanese refugees fleeing violence and persecution in their country. It is estimated that more than 75,000 refugees have arrived in Gambella region since mid-December, following intense fighting in South Sudan’s Upper Nile, Jonglei, and … Read more
After a bomb blast hit the northern Afghanistan city of Kunduz on March 25, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) received 23 patients at its trauma center. MSF medical teams treated 17 wounded patients, while six people were dead on arrival or died shortly thereafter. Of the 17 patients treated by MSF, five suffered … Read more
Since Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Holland was ordered to suspend all activities in Rakhine State on 26th February, the organisation has been engaged in high-level discussions with the Union Government of Myanmar on the need to maintain essential medical services for the many hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in the state currently facing … Read more
In response to the Ebola epidemic that has broken out in Guinea, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to reinforce its teams in Guéckédou and Macenta, two towns in the south of the country where the virus has spread. Thirty staff members are already on the ground and more doctors, nurses, and sanitation … Read more
Brussels/Geneva, 22 March 2014 – An outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in southern Guinea has prompted the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to launch an emergency response. Twenty-four MSF doctors, nurses, logisticians and hygiene and sanitation experts are already in the country, while additional staff will strengthen the team in the … Read more
The Ministry of Health must act to stop drug resistance from spiralling New Delhi/Mumbai, March 21, 2014: Immediate action from the Indian government is needed to prevent the unregulated sale and inappropriate prescription of tuberculosis (TB) drugs in the private healthcare sector, a practice that has had a significant role in the emergence of drug-resistant TB … Read more
Violent clashes have forced more than 15,000 people to seek refuge in newly created camps in Melut county, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, in recent weeks. With thousands of people in need of humanitarian assistance, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched an emergency response. Two new camps … Read more