Some 150,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) lack assistance. MSF aid is hindered. While Darfur is the centre of intense political focus - humanitarian corridors from Chad, etc. - that is little related to the reality in the field, in Chad 150,000 IDPs are caught up in a growing humanitarian...
More than 7,000 Hmong refugees at the Huai Nam Khao camp in Phetchabun, Thailand, are in danger of being returned to Laos, where they fear political persecution for cooperating with the United States government during the US-Vietnam War. To this day, the Hmong continue to hide in the remote jungles...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is working closely with Takeo Provincial Hospital to fight a dengue epidemic. The Cambodian province of Takeo is among the most severely hit by this mosquito-borne disease, which is endemic in the country. “This year the dengue epidemic started much earlier because of...
MSF condemns this murder On Monday June 11, 2007, Elsa Serfass was struck by a bullet while travelling in the Ngaoundai region of northwest Central African Republic (CAR). She died at 12.30pm local time. Elsa was travelling with two other Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff...
The Republic of Sudan has decided to award "Volunteer NGO of 2007" to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in acknowledgement of its "professionalism and commitment" MSF is using the opportunity of receiving the award to call attention to the continued crisis in Darfur. "In Darfur today, over 2 million...
It is with great sadness that Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has learned of the death of one of its volunteers in the Central African Republic. Elsa Serfass, 27, was killed today by gunfire during an assessment mission in the northwestern part of the country. Ms. Serfass was on her first assignment...
