Relief items distribution

In the week following fighting in Juba, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have treated more than 2700 patients in four clinics across the capital city of South Sudan. The organization is also supplying clean drinking water in Juba and performing surgeries for people more seriously wounded...

The health situation in Borno State in northeast Nigeria is critical. At least 500,000 people who are either displaced or cut off in enclaves outside state capital Maiduguri are in urgent need of food, medical care, drinking water and shelter. “Aid agencies must deploy a massive relief operation to...

The situation is critical for more than 100,000 people trapped in the Azaz district of Aleppo governorate in northern Syria who are caught between an active Islamic State group frontline, Kurdish-controlled territories and the Turkish border, warned Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. The border...

International donors and the broader humanitarian community must take immediate action to address widespread shortages of essential medicines in South Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today in an open letter from MSF international president Dr. Joanne Liu. “The conflict in South Sudan...

An escalation of fighting will trigger further massive displacement and deepen humanitarian crisis As heavy fighting in Azaz district, northern Syria, displaces tens of thousands more people, the already devastated health system is close to collapse, and any escalation of fighting will further...

Residents of the besieged Syrian town of Madaya continue to die of starvation, despite the provision of aid in convoys, as the Syrian government-led coalition blocks life-saving medical supplies from the town, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on 29 January (Friday). “It is totally unacceptable...

After five months of intense negotiations with officials , Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was able on Saturday January 16, to get a delivery of two trucks full of essential medical supplies into the besieged area of the city of Taiz, in southern Yemen. Checkpoints and...

MSF teams have managed to deliver urgently needed aid to thousands of people in the city of Aleppo (Syria) which is going through its fifth winter of civil war. In partnership with the Aleppo City Local Council, 5,200 winter and hygiene for displaced families were distributed in the first weeks of...

Despite weeks of intense negotiations with Ansarallah (Houthi) officials, international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that stocks of essential medical supplies cannot be delivered to two hospitals in a besieged enclave of the city of Taiz, in...

Indian generic companies should reject Gilead’s controversial hepatitis C programme Programme could compromise patient treatment and privacy rights Ahead of a meeting in Jaipur, India this week between US pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences and several Indian companies which have entered into an...