“The entire way I thought I was going to die - not because of my disease, but because of the shelling and the landmines” Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has now started supporting the regional Boost hospital in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province in Afghanistan. Our aim is to provide free,...
International medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), strongly objects to a recent statement made by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN in which he implies that NGOs should be the “soft power” component to a military strategy. (Read the March 4 statement by...
Two months after the January 12 earthquake, medical needs remain immense in Haiti and living conditions are extremely precarious. Although the phase of urgent life-saving medical care has passed there continues a critical emergency context, in which thousands of people need post-operative care,...
Two staff members of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), abducted on March 5 inPort-au-Prince, Haiti were safely released today ( March 11, 2010, Port-au-Prince time ). “We are immensely relieved. Our colleagues are out, are safe and are in good health,” said Jean-Sebastien MATTE, Head of Mission for...
Tens of thousands of refugee families on the banks of the Ubangi River in the Republic of Congo and Central African Republic (CAR) are facing extreme shortages of food, shelter and healthcare. The refugees fled violence which erupted in Equateur province in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo...
Ten days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile, Médecins San Frontières (MSF) teams that have travelled through the affected areas are focusing their interventions on the most urgent needs: supporting health structures that are caring for large numbers of patients, re-establishing...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has completed a seven month-long emergency cholera intervention in Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea’s first cholera outbreak in 50 years started in Morobe province in July 2009. In October, cholera was detected in the northern province of Madang, followed by another...
Seven weeks after the earthquake of January 12, which left up to 300,000 people injured, medical needs remain immense in Haiti, and they continue to grow. A crucial phase has begun, in which thousands of injured people require long term medical care just as some health providers that responded to...
As the Chilean authorities manages the response to the disaster, MSF is concentrating its efforts in the areas that are most difficult to access. Several teams from Médecins San Frontières (MSF) are assessing the needs in the Maule and Bio Bio regions of Chile, both of which were hard hit by the 8...
