MSF urges the Greek government to immediately implement measures to ensure humane reception conditions for migrants Migrants and asylum seekers kept in detention facilities in the Evros region of northern Greece are in a critical situation. During the last two months the number of migrants without...
Somali refugees, fleeing the fighting in their own country, continue to arrive in Dadaab, across the Kenyan border. The three vast refugee camps there are already too overcrowded to house them, and new arrivals have no choice but to construct makeshift shelters in the desert beyond the camps. MSF...
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has rejected ambitious proposals to turn back the AIDS epidemic in several high-burden sub-Saharan African countries. It has also decided to significantly delay the next opportunity for countries to apply for funding until December 2011, which...
“Having a baby is a joy. Having three is a triple blessing,” says Fardows ABU-BAKR, 34, who recently gave birth to healthy triplets in Hargeisa, Somaliland. She gazes at Sudais, Su’ad and Sadiyo with love, pride and apprehension. Two and a half years ago, Fardows lost two children, was abandoned by...
Local and international organizations must step up the distribution of chlorinated water in the areas affected by the epidemic Since October 22, 2010, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated 62,000 people with cholera symptoms in Haiti. This week, MSF's 4,000 Haitian staff and 315 international...
Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) is currently carrying out several mass immunization campaigns to increase measles vaccination coverage in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after health authorities declared a number of measles epidemics. Medical teams have treated hundreds of measles cases...
Isaie Jeanty hospital is a Haitian Ministry of Health maternity hospital in Port au Prince, which has received support from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since March 2010. The MSF teams focus on the obstetric cases in this referral teaching hospital and provide intensive care for newborns. Over...
Thursday and Friday were very difficult for our team as many of our local staff working in the Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) couldn't come to work due to the violence on the streets.
MSF has treated 26 injured patients, 15 of whom had bullet wounds, in Port-au-Prince Since the start of demonstrations in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, December 7, MSF has treated 26 injured patients, 15 of whom had bullet wounds. Two MSF ambulances continue to travel the city’s streets, picking up...
