In Malakand district, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, the local population has been affected by conflict between the Pakistani army and armed opposition groups. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), one of the only international organisations present in this region, has supported a sub-...
In May 2009, one million people fled fighting in Swat valley and Buner district to Mardan, a district in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. More than 80 percent of the displaced stayed with host families. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) helped local health clinics and...
Kuchlak is a town of 120,000 people located 30-minutes drive from Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province. Situated on the border with Afghanistan, several parts of the town have become a permanent home to Afghan refugees who fled to Pakistan during the civil war in the 1980s and later...
MSF is deeply saddened by the recent attack during the graduation of medical students from Benadir University. Medical needs throughout Somalia are vast, and in many places made all the worse by high levels of violence and prolonged drought. In contrast, the provision of medical care is vastly...
Nizeiyman’s story Nizeiyman, 21 years old, fled to the outskirts of Kitchanga in North Kivu Province when his village came under attack. He has joined the group of woodcutters in Mungoti camp for displaced people. They have pooled their resources to buy some basic woodcutting equipment. By selling...
An epidemic of measles is currently raging in the Miandgja, Ngomashi and Lwibo districts in the Masisi region, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. There are hundreds of thousands of children living in these areas who have not been immunised against measles. MSF has therefore launched a large-...
Following the killings of 46 people on the island of Mindanao on Monday, November 23, Medecins Sans Frontieres teams in the Philippines temporarily suspended their activities as the organization's local contacts said the situation was currently too tensed in the area to travel by road. This...
Why is MSF’s surgical facility in South Galcayo Hospital so important? The MSF surgical facility in Galcayo is very important because it is the only free surgical facility in a region affected by frequent violent clashes. It caters for many people, in towns and villages as far away as Dhusa Mareeb...
MSF’s experience in Sierra Leone has shown that patient fees act as a major obstacle to accessing life-saving health care. Lives that could be saved are lost every day. Necessary steps need to be taken now to improve the access to health care of the people in need in this desperately poor country...
As the World Food Summit draws to a close, the international community once again provides no commitments on tackling childhood malnutrition. World leaders have also failed to commit funds to directly target the malnutrition problem, despite pledges of $US 20 billion to support food security made...
