Médecins Sans Frontières, "Plight of the Darfur people in Chad and Sudan should be top priority of international aid community." Conditions for refugees in Chad are now so bad that hunger and disease are severely endangering the lives of tens of thousands of people, warned MSF today. Malnutrition...
Coalition forces endanger humanitarian action in Afghanistan Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is extremely concerned about the Coalition Forces' continued attempts to usurp and misrepresent the provision of humanitarian aid to people in need in Afghanistan. Coalition Forces in recent weeks have been...
The observations of an MSF worker during his fourth assignment in Iraq, in April 2004. "The scariest day in my life," that is how Ibrahim Younis describes the Sunday on which he assessed medical needs in the besieged city of Fallujah. The assignment in April was his fourth in Iraq. Ibrahim, member...
At least 20,000 people have been expelled over the last week, with many having been subjected to forced separation of families, collective and public sexual violence against both men and women, arbitrary detentions, degrading vaginal and anal searches, gang rape, beatings and looting of goods. 8,...
Increasing tension in Iraq makes assessment of health needs difficult Against the background of increasing tension and insecurity in large parts of Iraq , the three clinics of Medecins Sans Frontieres in Sadr City remain open. MSF has 90 staff in Iraq, among them a small number of international...
A day in the MSF health post in Aifena It is eight o'clock in the morning when the MSF team gets into the jeep and leaves the office in Kamacupa, Bie province. Their destination is Aifena, a camp for “ internally displaced persons” who settled in the area during 2001 or shortly afterwards when the...
A team of five people is already on the ground in Kerman MSF, together with the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), is providing medical care for "crush syndrome" - caused when damaged muscle tissues release massive quantities of toxins into the bloodstream - for the earthquake victims...
