Name : Designation : As a logistician with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for seven years now, Amul Rathi has been making sure that its programmes are equipped well to run smoothly. He’s worked in tribal areas of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in Iraq and most recently in Tajikistan, Central Asia. He shares … Read more
Three months after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, affecting 16 million people, emergency teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) report that although the relief effort is well underway, the recovery will take a lot longer. “The waste which filled the streets directly after the typhoon is now nearly all cleared away,” says Foura … Read more
Following several episodes of fatal inter-communal violence in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui last week, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams treated more than 200 people at Community Hospital and at the Castor Health Center; 90 of the patients required life-saving surgeries. “We see a large number of cases every day,” … Read more
By: Arjan Hehenkamp, MSF General Director When I left South Sudan ten years ago, having worked here for four, I left feeling hopeful. A ceasefire had been signed and a peace-agreement was under discussion. A few years later South Sudan became an independent country, a master of its destiny. I was not so naïve to … Read more
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
Effort to Derail Patent Law Reforms and Keep Drug Prices High Must be Challenged JOHANNESBURG/NEWYORK, JANUARY 21, 2014—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctor Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urging the South African government to continue to stand strong against a broad, multinational pharmaceutical industry effort to undermine and delay the efforts to reform patent … Read more