A Matter of Life and Death Children with AIDS are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable and adapted medicines, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres, the medical humanitarian organisation. A day before the opening of a paediatric AIDS summit organised by the World Health Organization and...
Due to the escalating violence in the country, MSF considers it no longer acceptable to expose its staff to the serious risks that apparently come with being associated with an international humanitarian organisation. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is closing its mission in Iraq. The international...
New Surveys Reveal Health and Nutritional Situation Precarious Epidemiological surveys newly completed by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in South Darfur, Sudan, reveal that the overall level and quality of aid remains insufficient. In Kalma camp near Nyala, where an estimated 66,000 people fleeing...
The primary humanitarian needs are health, shelter, access to food and water. Although there is no outbreak at this stage, there might be a possible risk of waterborne disease epidemics. After the flooding that hit the city of Gonaives, northwest of Haiti, on last Saturday, MSF is starting its...
In this project where I am working, there is a new hospital (which was set up by MSF-Holland and Ministry of Health Nukus in Nov 2003) for MDR-TB patients. Patients receive all treatments free of charge.
MSF will keep on monitoring the situation in Northern Ossetia MSF started the delivery of emergency medical supplies to the health authorities in Beslan and has sent a team down to Beslan, Northern Ossetia. At the beginning of the crisis, MSF contacted the health ministry to offer our support...
MSF's complete withdrawal from Afghanistan While working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) you travel to the most extraordinary places. You learn there are some places you simply don't like, and that there are many more places you simply love. Some places get under your skin; it's like coming...
After 24 years of independent aid to the Afghan people With a deep feeling of sadness and anger Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announces today the closure of all medical programs in Afghanistan. MSF is taking this decision in the aftermath of the killing of five MSF aid workers in a deliberate...
Visits by Colin Powell, Kofi Annan and Jan Pronk, the Secretary General's Special Representative for Sudan have finally brought the plight of people in Darfur to the world's attention. The Darfurians listening to the promises of Powell and Annan have little reason to believe they will make much...
