MSF was among the first organisations to provide large scale assistance to victims of cyclone Nargis. However, one month after it devastated the Irrawady delta in Myanmar, MSF teams are still encountering villages where survivors live in dire conditions and have not yet received any significant aid...
MSF alarmed by lack of protection of foreign nationals affected by recent violence The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today expressed alarm at the process of relocation imposed on the people displaced by recent violence in Johannesburg. After living...
What are the main needs of the people in Sichuan today? Following extensive assessments in the affected region, MSF teams have found that the response in terms of food, water, sanitation and hygiene is largely adequate in most places. Over 5 million have been left homeless by the quake, so the need...
Two weeks ago the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched a nutritional intervention in some areas of the southern region of Oromiya in Ethiopia, following assessments that showed alarming levels of malnutrition among children under five. MSF has set up three...
Three weeks after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, many survivors still lack basic supplies needed to survive and the amount of aid entering the affected area remains inadequate. While MSF has been able to get urgently needed food and other items to approximately 120,000 people living in the devastated...
I wake up before my alarm goes off at 5 am and sleepily go through my morning routine- bathroom, dress up and have breakfast. We're in the car by 6 am ready to patrol the coastline of South Yemen to provide assistance to Somali and Ethiopian arriva
Since cyclone Nargis hit the delta region in Myanmar on May 3, over 250 MSF staff has been working round the clock to provide medical aid and distribute food and shelter to the survivors. On May 21, a senior MSF doctor who has just returned to Yangon from working in the Delta gave an account of his...
The Chinese government is now estimating that over 5 million have been left homeless by the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated parts of the country's Sichuan province 12 days ago. A total of 34 MSF team members are now in the affected region and have been carrying out assessments, providing...
