Seven years. That’s how long many asylum seekers and refugees have been held on Nauru and Papua New Guinea, with still no end in sight. Seven years of various forms of detention, uncertainty about the future and a lack of control over even the basic details of their lives. Australia’s offshore...
Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls on Papua New Guinea (PNG) authorities to give its team access to the asylum seekers and refugees in Manus Transit Centres, to assess their conditions and provide essential medical care as appropriate. On Friday 24 November, PNG police...
A new report from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) uncovers the gaps in services and systems trapping women and children in cycles of severe family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea. “Return to Abuser” details how a dire lack of protection mechanisms, a weak justice system and a culture of...
Family and sexual violence (FSV) is a medical-humanitarian emergency with serious consequences for survivors, at individual and also family level. Its effects go far beyond domestic borders and affect public health at national level. Survivors need access to free, quality, confidential, integrated...
After a ten year absence, the international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has returned to the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, to assist in delivering much-needed healthcare in the remote southern region of Buin. Since April this year, a...
Last year, MSF adopted a new approach to tackling malaria in the Gueckedou region of Guinea. Patients are given drugs with proven effectiveness, and community health workers raise awareness among the population. Gueckedou is about 700 kilometres from Conakry, the capital of Guinea, and one must...
This MSF report highlights the urgent, unmet medical and emotional needs of survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea. It recommends concrete action in order to meet these needs. Family and sexual violence have long been recognized as serious problems in Papua New Guinea. Almost...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has completed a seven month-long emergency cholera intervention in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea’s first cholera outbreak in 50 years started in Morobe province in July 2009. In October, cholera was detected in the northern province of Madang, followed by another...
