Cambodia's level of poverty, ranking it in the bottom 20% on the UNDP human development index, along with its ever-present burden of an all too recent grief has had far-reaching effects on its public health system. It is a country that has endured a turbulent history and although it is developing...
HIV/AIDS care in Cambodia on the increase…for some Cambodia is a country languishing in poverty, still reeling from the effects of its recent history. Dealing with suffering that is still so tangible, its people are fighting to recover from the past, struggling to rebuild both financially and...
With a population of about 14 million, the vast majority of whom live on less than 2 USD a day, Cambodia ranks as one of the poorest countries in Asia. Struggling to rebuild itself following its tumultuous past, a weak public health system means that only one-fifth of the population has an...
MSF is striving to return to work at full capacity in all of its projects, but the renewed instability in the country means that this is far from assured. Over the past weeks, conflict has once again ravished the stricken East African state of Somalia and the consequences on the population and...
"If the media does not pay attention to a certain crisis, it is almost as if this crisis does not exist." The staggering human toll taken by tuberculosis and malnutrition as well as the devastation caused by wars in the Central African Republic (CAR), Sri Lanka, and Democratic Republic of Congo (...
After a Week of Intense Fighting in Somalia For the past week, the international humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has treated approximately 250 people wounded in the ongoing fighting in Somalia. Following a serious incident in an MSF medical facility in Dinsor, Somalia on...
