Since January 2010, MSF has been running a kala azar treatment centre in the state of Al-Gedaref in eastern Sudan. We talk to the doctor in charge of the project. Dr Dagemlidet WORKU has extensive experience of working with kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis), a disease that is neglected by...
Regarding some media reporting that Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was expelled from South Darfur, Sudan on 14 February, MSF clarifies that it is not correct and MSF continues to provide independent medical and humanitarian assistance in both North and South Darfur. In North Darfur MSF provides...
MSF teams respond to immediate medical needs Renewed fighting in North Darfur state during the last two months, between government and opposition groups, has forced thousands of families to flee from their villages, says the international medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières...
While the whole world is interested in South Sudan’s political situation ahead of the referendum on self-determination, the region is in the midst of a humanitarian and medical crisis. More than 75% of the population does not have access to basic health care. Upon his return from Abyei and Agok,...
On December 31, 2010, the international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), will hand over the reproductive health unit in Tagadom Hospital - in the Sudanese city of Port Sudan - to the Ministry of Health. MSF started supporting Tagadom Hospital in 2005, initially by...
Following deadly violence in Tabarat market in Tawila locality, North Darfur state, international emergency medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided urgent care to forty six wounded males, including one child. Since September 2, MSF medical teams treated 41 people...
All other MSF medical facilities in Jonglei and Sudan continue Following three separate security incidents in one of its remote healthcare clinics, international emergency medical aid organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to suspend all activities in Gumuruk, Jonglei State...
On that fateful Tuesday morning, Fatima endured an incomplete miscarriage after a two-month pregnancy. Fatima’s husband rented a car from their village, Khartoum Jadeed. The couple was joined by sympathetic family members: two male relatives and a female relative on a two hour and half journey to...
The people of Southern Sudan are trapped in a worsening crisis, following the most violent year since the 2005 peace agreement that ended more than two decades of civil war with the North. However, the response to the escalating emergency is inadequate, says international medical relief...
Following a serious outbreak of severe parasitic disease, kala azar, in Southern Sudan, medical humanitarian aid agency, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is responding to the emergency in several locations across both Jonglei and Upper Nile States. MSF is treating patients in its clinics in Pibor...
