Port-au-Prince, 14 October 2025 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to permanently close its Emergency Center in Turgeau due to increasing insecurity in the centre of Port-au-Prince. This health facility had temporarily closed its doors and suspended its activities in March 2025 following a serious incident targeting MSF. For several weeks now, the … Read more
Port-au-Prince, October 13, 2025 – Access to health care has become severely limited amid a broader crisis of violence and insecurity in Haiti. In response, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting the reopening of the Isaïe Jeanty Maternity Hospital, one of the largest in the country, which had closed during a wave of violence in … Read more
As Haiti’s capital sinks deeper into a crisis marked by violent clashes between armed groups and police forces, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reports a rise in the number of civilian casualties arriving at its facilities and highlights the impact of this violence on the availability of healthcare in the capital. In a context … Read more
Port-au-Prince, 8 April, 2025 – Following the targeted attack on 15 March against a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) convoy travelling between its Turgeau emergency centre and its Carrefour Trauma Hospital, and in view of the deteriorating security situation in downtown Port-au-Prince, the organisation has taken the difficult decision to withdraw from these two structures for … Read more
Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Haiti’s capital urgently need vital services such as safe shelters, mental health support and medical care, as rapes and other assaults have become widespread during violence and insecurity in the city in recent years. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided comprehensive medical and psychological care to sexual and … 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
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 21st May, 2024 – Since the end of February, Port-au-Prince has been engulfed in unprecedented violence, cutting off the Haitian capital from the outside world following the closure of the airport and ports. The escalating insecurity has severely disrupted the medical operations of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has not been able to … Read more
A survey conducted by MSF’s Epicentre shows an abnormally high mortality rate, with more than 40 percent of all deaths caused by violence. PORT-AU-PRINCE/PARIS – The first survey in more than a decade to examine the impact of violence on mortality in Haiti reveals the extreme levels of violence experienced by residents of Cité Soleil, the largest slum in the … Read more
Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up its medical activities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to care for the mounting number of people injured in the chaos that has engulfed the Haitian capital since the February 28 announcement that general elections may be postponed as late as August 2025. The violence has taken on … Read more
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, November 17, 2023—The neighborhoods of Cité Soleil, a commune in the Haitian capital, are once again caught up in a resurgence of violence between rival armed groups. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated about 50 people wounded in Cité Soleil since November 13, while other medical services have been forced to close their … Read more