Following the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunamis that devastated areas of northeast Japan on Friday afternoon, a chartered helicopter with two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams has landed in Miyagi prefecture. The team is travelling to the medical coordination centre in the worst-...
As conflict intensifies inside Libya, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely concerned with the situation of the wounded caught in the middle of violent clashes, and calls for urgent unhindered access to medical assistance, irrespective of...
Following the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunamis that hit northeast Japan on Friday afternoon, two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams of three-people are attempting to get to the worst-hit areas in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures. Access to the area by land is currently blocked by the...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Benghazi and on the Tunisian-border are still working to access areas of Western Libya, where medical needs are reportedly critical. Inside Libya, insecurity and the volatility of the situation is not allowing the team to reach areas in the West of the...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denies all accounts that a medical doctor working for MSF was taken in Benghazi on 8 th March. No MSF staff has been taken in Libya. MSF teams have been present in Benghazi since 24th February and continue to support Libyan medical staff, particularly in Benghazi and...
On March 8 and 9, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) organised a workshop in Geneva to improve the treatment of obstetric fistula. This condition, a cause of great shame, affects two million women worldwide, mostly in Africa. "The sun should not rise or set twice on a woman in labour." Despite this...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to look into means of delivering more medicine and supplies, by road or by boat, to areas affected by violence Since the first MSF team was able to cross the Egyptian border into Libya on 24 February, MSF has been assessing the situation in various medical...
Approximately two million women worldwide suffer from an obstetric fistula, one of the most serious consequences of obstructed labour. A fistula is a hole between the vagina and the bladder or rectum, through which urine or faeces leak continuously. The injury is completely preventable and has...
MSF asks parties to conflict to allow medical teams to care for all patients The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today expressed concern over the deteriorating situation in the west of Ivory Coast and the border region with Liberia. As the population...
