Six months after the first international donor conference for Syria, humanitarian aid is failing. Security and living conditions have deteriorated dramatically. The population living in areas controlled by opposition groups have almost no access to official international aid. Across the country, there are enclaves surrounded by intense fighting, where virtually no aid is reaching the … Read more
TISSI, CHAD/NEW YORK, APRIL 26, 2013—Violent clashes in Sudan’s Darfur region have driven approximately 50,000 people across the border into southeastern Chad since early March, where a lack of food, water, shelter, and basic services is developing into a humanitarian crisis, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. In … Read more
Geneva, 13 June 2013 – The World Health Organization has today issued interim guidance on the use of bedaquiline, the first new drug to treat tuberculosis in 50 years, which received accelerated approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) on 31 December 2012. Acknowledging the growing crisis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and the … Read more
Name : Designation : Amul Rathi, has worked as a logistician with MSF for more than five years. He shares his experiences from setting up mobile health clinics in forest areas of Chhattisgarh in India to managing supplies for a hospital in Iraq. Mobile Health Camp in Chhattisgarh, India© Amul Rathi/ MSF My hometown Sukma … Read more
Mego Terzian, President, MSF-France Six months after the first international donor conference for Syria, humanitarian aid is failing. Security and living conditions have deteriorated dramatically. The population living in areas controlled by opposition groups have almost no access to official international aid. Across the country, there are enclaves surrounded by intense fighting, where virtually no … Read more
June 7, 2013 Victorine and her family fled their home near Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), during four days of violent clashes in late May between the Congolese army and the M23 rebel group. She is now one of up to 5,000 people taking refuge in Sotraki Stadium, on the outskirts … Read more
Please see the following open letter from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as the United Nations convenes in Geneva on June 7 to launch a regional response plan for Syrian refugees and a humanitarian assistance plan for Syria. NEW YORK, JUNE 5, 2013—After more than two years of raging conflict in Syria, humanitarian assistance … Read more
Thousands of people left without healthcare after a coup d’etat in Central African Republic (CAR) are now receiving treatment from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Three months after the coup we are still scaling up our response. Our teams have opened a new emergency health project in Bossangoa – north of the capital, … Read more
In May, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with the South Sudanese Ministry of Health, stemmed a meningitis A outbreak and vaccinated over 130,000 people against the disease in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, reinforcing its commitment to assisting the region’s population. Starting on May 15, MSF teams deployed in the northern city … Read more
Three months after a coup d’etat in the Central African Republic (CAR), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to scale up activities in order to assist thousands of people who were left without access to basic health care or who had no access to care to begin with. MSF has opened a new emergency … Read more