MSF highlights medical approaches to avert maternal deaths during humanitarian crises On International Women’s Day, the international medical humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is underlining the fact that far too many women continue to die avoidable deaths during childbirth...
The international medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has opened a new maternity hospital in eastern Khost Province in Afghanistan, which will provide pregnant women in the region with desperately needed high-quality healthcare. Decades of conflict have left Afghanistan...
In Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Southern Sudan, where most people have very little access to health care, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a mother and child health program. In the maternity ward of Aweil Civil Hospital, MSF teams work to reduce the maternal death rate. In the bustling maternity...
On March 8 and 9, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) organised a workshop in Geneva to improve the treatment of obstetric fistula. This condition, a cause of great shame, affects two million women worldwide, mostly in Africa. "The sun should not rise or set twice on a woman in labour." Despite this...
Approximately two million women worldwide suffer from an obstetric fistula, one of the most serious consequences of obstructed labour. A fistula is a hole between the vagina and the bladder or rectum, through which urine or faeces leak continuously. The injury is completely preventable and has...
Kuchlak is a town of 120,000 people located 30-minutes drive from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province. Situated on the border with Afghanistan, several parts of the town have become a permanent home to Afghan refugees who fled to Pakistan during the civil war in the 1980s and later...
