Following escalating violence in Rakhine state, MSF has temporarily suspended activities and reduced staff in Rakhine state. Suspension of activities means the disruption of life-saving primary health-care, including the provision of urgent anti-retroviral treatment to HIV positive patients. MSF is...
Wounded people and medical workers remain targeted and threatened, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said, following visits to parts of Syria. MSF insists that all parties to the conflict must fully respect the physical integrity of wounded people,...
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For Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the issue in Syria today is to demilitarize hospitals – not to militarize humanitarian aid. As Syrian armed forces lead a new assault against the city of Homs, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs continues to call for the creation of "humanitarian corridors"...
The Syrian regime is conducting a campaign of unrelenting repression against people wounded in demonstrations and the medical workers trying to treat them, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said. While MSF cannot work directly in Syria, it has...
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been providing mental healthcare in two refugee camps in Lebanon for the past three years, both to Palestinian refugees and to vulnerable Lebanese in the area. Now MSF has opened a new project in northern Lebanon, following the arrival of 4,500 Syrians who have...
