Amsterdam, 28 February 2014 – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières Holland (MSF) has been ordered by the Union Government of Myanmar to cease all activities in the country. MSF is deeply shocked by this unilateral decision and extremely concerned about the fate of tens of thousands of patients currently under our care across the country. … Read more
Thousands of people who fled violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) are now in Sido, southern Chad. They need emergency aid. “The World Food Programme and the Chadian authorities must distribute food immediately to these destitute populations,” says Sarah Chateau, head of mission for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Chad. Paris, N’Djamena, … Read more
Juba / Amsterdam / Barcelona / New York, 26 February 2014 — As entire towns in South Sudan suffer devastating attacks, medical care has also come under fire, with patients shot in their beds, wards burned to the ground, medical equipment looted, and, in one case, an entire hospital destroyed, the international medical humanitarian organisation … Read more
Kabul, February 25, 2014 – After more than a decade of international aid and investment, access to basic and emergency medical care in Afghanistan remains severely limited and sorely ill-adapted to meet growing needs created by the ongoing conflict, reveals a report released today by the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). … Read more
Project Coordinator Sarah Maynard describes the devastation she encountered upon returning to MSF’s hospital in Leer “We landed in Leer and walked from the airstrip up to the hospital. There was no one else around. Normally there are dozens of local boys playing football under the big trees by the hospital, mothers getting water from … Read more
As violence continues to spread throughout the northwest of Central African Republic (CAR), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have opened a new project in Bouar, a town which has been severely impacted by the conflict and its consequences. Today, around 6000 people remain trapped and unable to flee. For the last month, MSF has been … Read more
MSF launched a measles vaccination campaign on 8 February in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, following the January 14 official declaration of an epidemic. MSF plans to vaccinate close to 500,000 children between the ages of 6 months to 10 years over a two-week period. ‘It is taking lives’ Halimatou Touré has been at the … Read more
Since June 2012, MSF has been treating prisoners and ex prisoners with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Paola Mermati, MSF’s Field Coordinator in Donetsk, talks about the challenges of treating such patients successfully. How are these patients different from others? The rate of TB here in the Donetsk region is ten … Read more
Since February 1, nearly 1,000 people, most of them Muslim, have been trapped, surrounded, and threatened by armed militias known as anti-balakas in Carnot, southwestern Central African Republic (CAR). Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working in Carnot since 2010 and has been a direct witness to the violence and abuses against the … Read more
Since early December 2013, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided medical care to more than 1,000 patients wounded by violence in and around Central African Republic (CAR)’s Bangui airport, where approximately 100,000 displaced people have taken refuge from a wave of fighting that has swept across the country. In the past week alone, … Read more