Democratic Republic of Congo MSF has limited its medical activities in and around Mweso hospital in Dr Congo’s North Kivu province after a succession of incidents where staff was intimidated, patients threatened. MSF team is providing lifesaving activities in the hospital. Direct support and...
Increased humanitarian assistance urgently needed Tens of thousands of people have fled in a new wave of attacks and ruthless killings by armed groups and Government forces in north-western Central African Republic (CAR), the international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
Access Campaign As Asia-Pacific leaders prepare to meet in Bali for the APEC Summit, where the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement trade deal will be high on the agenda, MSF urged governments not to make political trade-offs during trade negotiations that will harm access to affordable...
Central African Republic MSF denounces the targeting of civilian population in a new wave of violence erupted in Bouca, north of Bangui, in Central African Republic. MSF treated 26 people, injured either by machetes or gunshots, including eight women and six children. Democratic Republic of Congo...
26 patients treated with machete and gunshot wounds in Bouca by MSF teams The medical-humanitarian organisation MSF denounces the targeting of civilian population in a new wave of violence erupted in Bouca, 325 km. north of Bangui, in Central African Republic (CAR). MSF treated 26 people, injured...
Access Campaign As negotiations for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement moved to Malaysia, MSF urged negotiating countries to remove terms that could adversely affect access to affordable medicines by people from developing countries, choke off production of generic medicines, and constrain...
MSF calls on the international community to respond to urgent medical and humanitarian needs Three months after Seleka forces seized power in Central African Republic (CAR), the country is in the grip of a humanitarian emergency while the international community looks on with indifference, warned...
Central African Republic (CAR) MSF teams in Batangafo distributed essential items, including plastic sheeting, mosquito nets and blankets to more than five thousand people who were forced to flee their villages after they were burned down during heavy fighting with nomadic herdsmen coming from Chad...
Yemen Although HIV is not a major epidemic in the country (prevalence is estimated at about 0.2 per cent of the population), people living with HIV face stigma and discrimination almost everywhere; and because of the lack of knowledge by the medical personnel, even in some health facilities. Since...
Afghanistan MSF strongly condemns violence against humanitarian workers and facilities following the attack on an office of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Jalalabad on 29 May. Central African Republic Three months after a coup d’etat, MSF has opened a new emergency health...
