Over the last 36 hours Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surgeons alongside Ministry of Health staff, have been working around the clock to treat more than 400 war wounded patients that have arrived in Vavuniya hospital, in the government controlled area in northern Sri Lanka. That is almost double...
MSF confirms that two of its staff members have been abducted yesterday in the Bakool region of Somalia. A Dutch nurse and a Belgian doctor were returning from a medical supervisory visit. On the road between Rabdhore and Hudur they were stopped by a group of armed men. The two were taken, all...
On Sunday April 19, MSF lost contact with a medical team in the Bakool region (Somalia). The team includes two international staff, one Belgian and one Dutch. At this stage we don't have further information. MSF is in contact with the families.
Several countries in West Africa are facing a major meningitis epidemic; hundreds of MSF /Ministry of Health teams are mobilized to treat and to vaccinate. In Nigeria, Niger and Chad, MSF is working with the health authorities to carry out vaccination campaigns for a total target population of...
In Balochistan, Pakistan's largest and least developed province, most people have very limited access to health care. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports a mother-and-child health care programme in Kuchlak, a remote settlement outside the regional capital Quetta made up mostly of Afghan...
Shortly after the International Criminal Court (ICC) delivered an indictment of President Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese government expelled more than a dozen international humanitarian aid organisations from Darfur, including two sections of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) who were forced to leave in...
Countries that are facing the heaviest toll of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are not moving fast enough to provide life-saving treatment, according to international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). As ministers from high-burden countries gather tomorrow...
Dr.Kalpana SABAPATHY, (HIV Advisor, MSF-OCA explains the importance of condoms in the fight against HIV How crucial is the use of condoms in the fight against HIV? Condoms are the key to safe sex. They not only prevent HIV, but many sexually transmitted infections. And they prevent unwanted...
South Sudan- It sounds like a place stricken by a biblical plague- disease after unimaginable disease, all come to rest in one pitiful region of a vast African country.
