The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expressed alarm at the deportation of approximately 500 Zimbabweans, including women and children, from a detention centre in Musina, at the border with Zimbabwe. South African authorities in Musina told MSF that...
The MSF team in Um Dukhun has treated more than 20 people with violence-related injuries including wounds caused by gunshots, axes, swords and beating. More than 10,000 people have fled violence and insecurity in southeastern Chad and crossed the border to take refuge in Darfur, Sudan, according to...
MSF team frustrated about closed doors in China After four years of seeking permission to bring AIDS treatment to China's Henan province, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has found the door firmly shut by the provincial authorities. Henan is particularly hard hit by HIV; between the mid-eighties and...
Exhibition will be ended next Monday "Democratic Republic of Congo: The Forgotten War" Photo Exhibition organised by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Hong Kong, Macao Digital Photography Association and Macau Arts Affair Institute will be ending next Monday, 5 June 2006. The photos shown in this...
First Relief Team Arrived Yogyakarta An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 shook the Indonesia island of Java early yesterday (27 May). Four quakes and more than 70 aftershocks have been reported. More than 3,000 people died and many other injured and displaced. MSF responses by sending medical teams and...
World Health Assembly will be held next week As health ministers meet in Geneva at the World Health Assembly (WHA) next week, the medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is calling on governments to overhaul the way medical research and development (R...
Access to safe and free water needs to be guaranteed, says MSF The disastrous state of the water supply and sanitation infrastructure in Luanda and other big cities is the principal reason for the rapid spread of the cholera outbreak in Angola. Up until 14th of May, more than 34,000 people had...
As number of infected people reaches 20,000, the response to the epidemic remains insufficient Ten weeks after the first case of cholera was confirmed in Luanda, some 20,000 people have been infected, around 900 people have died, and the disease has spread throughout most of the country. On 25...
The MSF team which has been working in the hospital since consists of a surgeon, a doctor, a nurse, and a logistician. Since last Thursday (13th April) afternoon, MSF has been treating heavily wounded civilians after widespread violence in Chad reached its capital city, N'Djamena. So far, surgical...
