MSF teams have returned to Libya after being forced to withdraw from Benghazi due to worsening security conditions on the 15th of March. Today, seven MSF staff are inside the country, both in Benghazi and Tobruk, planning to resume assessments of medical needs and provide support with medical...
Ivory Coast is experiencing a new spiral of violence that is endangering populations’ access to medical care. Confrontations raging in parts of the city of Abidjan and in the western part of the country have displaced tens of thousands of people. Facing the same insecurity as the rest of the...
One evening in early March, 1500 families in the Garib Nagar slum in Mumbai saw everything they own go up in flames when a devastating fire ripped through their neighbourhood. MSF assisted the affected population the following week by distributing 4800 emergency kits to help fulfill the most...
Ever since civil unrest and violence erupted in countries across north Africa and the Middle East, teams from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) have been supplying and assisting hospitals and health structures where medical staff are facing increased numbers of injured people. Teams are also assisting...
MSF report says fixing drug supply and price problems is urgent A promising new diagnostic test will finally help detect more people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), increasing the urgency to solve major problems around the pricing and supply of DR-TB medicines, according to a new report...
On 15 March MSF teams left Benghazi due to increased insecurity. From Alexandria (Egypt) MSF’s emergency coordinator Simon BURROUGHS talks about the team’s efforts to get back into Libya and the need for access for medical humanitarian teams. Almost a week after MSF had to leave Benghazi and Libya...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a mental health care programme to provide assistance to vulnerable migrants waiting at the Tunisian-Libyan border.
For the past seven days MSF has been providing medical consultations in evacuation centres in Minamisanriku, where around 10,000 people are housed in 20 locations. Dr Yoshitaka NAKAGAWA returned on Saturday night after spending a week in the northeast with teams sometimes hiking into remote...
A 9.0-magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunamis hard hit northeastern Japan. Although the death toll is high and the devastation is large-scale, as of today we see that the authorities in Japan were well-prepared for a disaster of this nature, and had well-defined emergency response plans...
March 16 The team, now 12 people, reassembled and established an operational base in Tome, in northern Miyagi prefecture and spread into three groups. One group of two people continued to work with local doctors in evacuation centres in Minamisanriku, another team of two people went to Oshima...
