MSF urges government to take stronger action With the number of cholera cases increasing rapidly in and around Angola's capital Luanda, the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on Angolan authorities to provide quickly more resources to contain the growing...
Photo Exhibition Successfully Kicked-off Today The opening ceremony of the "Democratic Republic of Congo: the forgotten war" Photo Exhibition was successfully held at Hollywood Plaza today. The exhibition will be moved to the Hong Kong Central Library and continue the tour. In the summer of 2005,...
The Dutch and Swiss sections of MSF continue to work in Myanmar. After four years in Myanmar (Burma), the French section of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) has closed its medical programs and left the country. The programs were situated in the Mon and Karen states, a region bordering Thailand, and...
Two million people die every year - yet only makeshift solutions are provided Tuberculosis (TB) kills nearly 2 million people every year and makes 9 million people sick. The catastrophic situation will only get worse: TB and AIDS coinfection rates skyrocket - one third of the 40 million people who...
Exhibition details For years, the on-going conflicts and the plight of the Congolese people have been almost ignored by the international community. In 2005, five renowned photographers (Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Joachim Ladefoged, and James Nachtwey) visited MSF projects in the...
In many places there is simply no water left, the pastures have dried up and thousands of animals have died, depriving much of the primarily pastoralist population of their livelihoods. The familiar sound of an Imam's voice drifts through the searing heat of the early morning in El Wak, a town in...
"Our strategy is to move simultaneously towards two objectives: to launch the vaccination campaign and to guarantee a free and complete treatment for all the children already infected. These two steps are essentials to control the mortality rate and to reduce the spread out of the outbreak" The...
Providing first aid, mobilizing other aid agencies Since late January, people have been streaming from Chad into Sudan's western region of Darfur, which is still gripped by violence and instability. More than 7,000 people fleeing violence and looting in Chad have taken refuge in a small village...
