Over the past six months a measles epidemic has been sweeping through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is raising the alarm and calling for concerted action to halt the spread of the disease. “The measles epidemic is spiralling out of control,” says Gaël...
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An Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) carried out more than 500 consultations for a group of 600 nomads over a period of just three weeks in northern Congo. The women, children and elderly nomads had gathered in a makeshift camp to escape being raped...
The international emergency medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided specialized care to 33 women raped on New Year’s Day in Fizi, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The women were raped on the night of 1 January in Fizi town and surroundings in a...
Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) is currently carrying out several mass immunization campaigns to increase measles vaccination coverage in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after health authorities declared a number of measles epidemics. Medical teams have treated hundreds of measles cases...
A violent attack by men armed with hammers, and the burning of a village of internally displaced people are two in a series of violent events suffered by people living in the Kivu Provinces of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently. The number of gunshot and rape victims being treated by...
Thousands of people have been forced to flee their villages in the Shabunda area of South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), due to heavy clashes between the Congolese army (FARDC) and various armed groups. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to the urgent needs of the...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting the hospital in Uvira, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after a fuel tanker crashed and exploded in the nearby village of Sange late last week. The crash killed up to 242 people and left countless people injured. Over the weekend 43 people...
