Since 2022, MSF teams have been supporting local health services in the remote Delta Amacuro region, a vast wetland of swamps and jungle on Venezuela’s Atlantic shore, home to the Waraos, one of the country’s largest ethnic group. Steve Hyde, who has been MSF Project Coordinator, describes how was his experience working in this part … Read more
Calais, 15 May 2023 – On the French-British border, hundreds of people are trying to reach the UK every day, risking their lives for lack of prospects in France or to join relatives in the UK. In Calais, they face a lack of support from authorities, isolation from local communities, and language barriers between them … Read more
Under the shadow of a tree, a group is gathering, exchanging greetings. Peter, a mental health counsellor for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Margaret Abuk, MSF health promoter, are conducting an awareness and educational session for a group of overfifty people. A woman in the background is carrying a jerrycan of water on her head, … Read more
More people than ever recorded are currently forcibly displaced from their homes by conflict, human rights violations, climate change, and the economic consequences resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Across Europe, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to witness people fleeing crisis being left to drown at sea, intercepted and pushed back at borders, denied … Read more
The looting of El Geneina Teaching Hospital, which is supported by Médecins Sans Frontières-Doctors Without Borders (MSF) since 2021, made headlines in the last week of April. Reports suggest that widespread looting, destruction, and burning of property took place in El Geneina city, the capital of West Darfur, including at sites where displaced people reside. … Read more
On May 11, when the Biden administration ends the COVID-19 public health emergency nationally, Title 42, a public health order used to shut down asylum at the US southern border for more than three years, officially comes to an end. Invoked by the Trump administration in 2020 and repeatedly extended by the Biden administration, Title … Read more
More than 10,000 nurses are providing healthcare in Médecins Sans Frontières’ humanitarian programmes worldwide—the largest single professional representation in MSF. To mark International Nurses’ Day on May 12 and celebrate our diverse nursing staff, MSF highlights the sometimes underestimated contribution of nurses in our intensive care units (ICUs), treating severely sick patients who may otherwise … Read more
MSF calls on US based corporations Abbott and BD to ensure adequate supply of CD4 tests and equipment. Geneva, 11 May 2023 – In a new report released today, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that access to point-of-care CD4 testing for HIV is under threat because US diagnostics corporations Abbott Laboratories (Abbott) and … Read more
Kiribati is one of the most remote and geographically dispersed countries in the world. It is also one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of the climate crisis. The country faces has described as a triple threat to health: communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and the health impacts of climate change. Climate and … Read more
“We came to Sudan seeking safety, but now we are trapped in another conflict that makes it even harder to cope and survive.”- Refugees in Um Rakuba camp. Fighting erupted in Sudan on April 15, affecting Khartoum and other states leaving many in life-threating situations. Amidst the violence, MSF has decided to stay in Sudan … Read more