Dr Mya Aye*, a Burmese doctor, has just returned from Bogaley where Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is assisting survivors of Cyclone Nargis. She is the team leader, supervising both the medical and logistical teams who are going out on boats daily to assist the population. She will go back to...
Each year 50,000 people die of kala azar, a tropical disease which is transmitted by sandflies. There are few effective drugs to treat it; those that are available are mostly not affordable for people in poorer countries. Without treatment, nine out of ten patients will die. When 25-year-old Sunder...
"The people in our village told me to come here, to the MSF clinic, because my children would get food and medication. I hope my two girls will get better quickly," said Subo, the mother of Sheleme and Kutuba. She doesn't seem worried. She has an air of confidence and trust that is almost...
For the last three weeks, staff working for the humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been stopped at road blocks and prevented by local authorities from providing medical assistance to the affected civilian population of Mount Elgon. MSF is calling on the authorities to...
They're sitting side by side on one of the blue mattresses in the MSF stabilisation centre in Kuyera in the Oromiya region. Sheleme and Kutuba are twin sisters. Their tiny four-year-old frames are dressed in identical flower-print dresses. The twins were admitted to the centre today because they're...
11,800 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition have been admitted to MSF programmes in the Oromiya and Southern Nations and Nationalities People's (SNNPR) regions of southern Ethiopia. In certain areas, poor rainfalls, high food prices, as well as low purchase power and other factors have...
The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is shocked by the judgment rendered by Switzerland's highest judicial body, the Federal Tribunal. Following four years of proceedings, and in spite of two previous rulings in favour of MSF in both the first instance and appeal...
Two months of MSF emergency response in Myanmar Myanmar is marking the two-month anniversary of Cyclone Nargis, which struck the country on May 02, devastating entire communities and destroying thousands of lives. Though eight weeks have passed, the needs facing survivors remain critical. While the...
Since 26th May, more than 30,000 Congolese expelled from Angola crossed the border in Kahungula, in the Bandundu province, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In response to an alert launched by the Congolese authorities, an MSF team went on the ground to provide health care...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today called on G8 leaders who will gather next week in Japan to take bold decisions to adequately finance food aid and nutrition programmes directed at young children. With the crisis of malnutrition contributing to between three and five million child deaths...
