MSF calls on the parties to the conflict to guarantee humanitarian access to the victims, and to honor the security of humanitarian workers. Deeply shocked by the killing of 17 Sri Lankan colleagues working with Action Against Hunger in Sri Lanka, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (...
MSF has been attacked in the past weeks in Darfur Médecins Sans Frontières demands that provision of medical care be allowed and respected in the conflict in Darfur. Many MSF activities are currently suspended, leaving thousands of patients untreated everyday. Medecins Sans Frontières has been...
Update 27th July Access to the south of the country remains difficult because shelling and bombardments have destroyed roads and buildings. MSF sent three vans carrying drugs from Beirut to Tyre yesterday (26 July). An MSF surgeon and medical team are working in the town. More medical and surgical...
MSF Director of Operations said As the conflict in Lebanon continues, four Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are working in Beirut, Jezzine, Saida, Tyre and Shouf region and continue to evaluate needs in different areas of the country. On 25 July Tuesday night, MSF Director of Operations and ex-...
Distributed Essential Drugs and blankets to IDPs MSF has been in Saida, Lebanon since this past weekend. The five hospitals in that city do not appear to be overcrowded but they need medications for chronic diseases. The local authorities report 42,000 displaced people (IDPs). MSF plans to provide...
MSF brings assistance to 39,000 displaced people in Gety Since July 14, an emergency team from MSF has been working in Gety, located south of Bunia, the capital of Ituri District, assisting a population of 39 000 people. Bringing aid to the displaced is particularly difficult as security conditions...
Three teams of MSF have arrived the in the the devastated area The two-meter wave that struck the coast of Java on July 17 has left at least 531 people dead, according to the latest figures from the indonesian authorities. Three teams of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) were sent to the affected...
Abstract Civil society in Thailand has been a driving force behind efforts to increase access to treatment for HIV/AIDS. Activism for access to medicines has brought civil society and nongovernmental actors together to fight for a single cause, creating a platform for joint action on practical...
