MSF medical teams are currently assessing the nutritional situation in several areas of the country. Since 4 November, MSF medical doctors have been screening children in the mountain area of Baie d'Orange and Belle Anse, where authorities had reported children dead because of malnutrition in the...
"The future, it means dying. It's dying because of the ongoing problems. Because I was born during the problems. Today I'm 18 years old. You see, it's awful." –Louis, a malaria patient. The current escalation in violence has brought the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo back into the...
He's sixteen years-old and tells his story with a very hushed voice. J. is clearly still scared and shocked; probably not yet fully grasping what happened to him two weeks ago. He and his ten year old brother were in the forest in Nyanzale area when the fighting broke out. "We were caught right in...
New analysis from international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shows how the European Commission is failing to pay its fair share towards discovering and developing new tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, diagnostics and treatments. MSF is calling on the European...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, are providing emergency care and treatment to people injured in the collapse of La Promesse School in the Petionville neighborhood of the city earlier today. More than 80 patients, among them many children, have been...
Médecins Sans Frontières struggling to provide care Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) medical teams are struggling to provide free quality emergency care to pregnant women and their babies in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the last month, hundreds of women have desperately sought emergency obstetric care...
Hundreds of thousands people in urgent need of assistance Widely publicized armed convoys of relief assistance to Goma and Rutshuru are an inadequate response to the humanitarian crisis facing the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) troubled North Kivu region, says international medical...
Annie DESILETS is the project coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières in Kitchanga, in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. She's with a team of more than 160 MSF staff working 85 km – or four hours by road – north of Goma. There are two camps in the Kitchanga area. One has an estimated 25,...
In camps for displaced people in Kibati, just north of Goma, people are seeking refuge from recent fighting. O, 6, and X, 58 O is six years old. Her feet are swollen. Mumuza Muhindo, an MSF nurse working with the mobile clinic in Kibati, diagnoses kwashiorkor, a severe form of malnutrition. "We...
Following several days of heavy fighting between rebels and government troops, MSF teams are continuing their work in Goma and in other towns and villages in North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The organization remains very concerned about many people still on the move after...
