Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has helped established a network of 30 local psychologists as part of its medical support projects in the city of Misrata, Libya, which has been the scene of fierce fighting for more than four months. In a country with no experience in war for over four decades, few...
After a ten year absence, the international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has returned to the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, to assist in delivering much-needed healthcare in the remote southern region of Buin. Since April this year, a...
MSF condemns use of medical aid for military objectives; reported ruse risks damaging trust critical for health workers and humanitarian aid The United States government’s alleged misuse of a vaccination campaign in Pakistan for counter-terrorism purposes constitutes a dangerous abuse of medical...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has found alarmingly high rates of malnutrition among the Somali refugees arriving and settling in the outskirts of the Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya. The organisation will therefore reinforce its intervention in the camp. Day after day, thousands fleeing...
Excluded countries should be ready to issue compulsory licences to access needed drugs An agreement announced today by pharmaceutical company Gilead to licence several HIV/AIDS drugs to the Medicines Patent Pool could improve access to medicines for patients, but excludes several countries with...
Last year, MSF adopted a new approach to tackling malaria in the Gueckedou region of Guinea. Patients are given drugs with proven effectiveness, and community health workers raise awareness among the population. Gueckedou is about 700 kilometres from Conakry, the capital of Guinea, and one must...
Organisation Hopes for Further Expansion in Al-Shabaab Territory MSF relief teams need your help with a gift towards the current emergency relief work for crisis in Somalia and its consequences. Please donate now! The announcement by one of the main armed factions in Somalia, Al Shabaab, that...
As South Sudan prepares to mark its official independence on Saturday 9 July, an estimated 260,000 newly displaced people continue to face emergency needs in what will be the world’s newest nation. This includes the 100,000 people who fled the mid-May bombings and fighting between northern and...
Interview Katrien Coppens, MSF Operations Manager of the Democratic Republic of Congo As medical teams in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo respond to yet another incident of mass rape in the region, Operations Manager Katrien COPPENS explains how ordinary people in the...
