The international medical-humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is currently responding to a large influx of wounded patients, as a result of recent clashes that began on Wednesday 9 February in Upper Nile State, southern Sudan. In collaboration with the International Committee...
“I live in hell and all I see is nightmares” It's been 64 days now that I am detained in this border police station and the conditions are unimaginable. In the cell right now we are 124 people. The cell is very very small, it can only fit 35 people. There is no space to lie down and sleep, you...
According to the UNHCR, close to 30,000 refugees have been fleeing post-election violence and tensions in Ivory Coast. Most of the Ivorian refugees are hosted in villages along the border in Nimba County. An MSF team is currently providing healthcare services to these refugees. The UNHCR have set...
MSF teams respond to immediate medical needs Renewed fighting in North Darfur state during the last two months, between government and opposition groups, has forced thousands of families to flee from their villages, says the international medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières...
On January 20, MSF donated essential medicines to the cardiology department at Shifa Hospital in Gaza, where shortages hinder access to medical care. In late January, the cardiology department at Shifa Hospital contacted our staff because the unit was short of protamine sulfate. Six to eight vials...
This MSF report highlights the urgent, unmet medical and emotional needs of survivors of family and sexual violence in Papua New Guinea. It recommends concrete action in order to meet these needs. Family and sexual violence have long been recognized as serious problems in Papua New Guinea. Almost...
The international emergency medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided specialized care to 53 women, men and children who were raped in a series of incidents that occurred between 19 January and 21 January in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of...
Southern Sudan: Political and health crises, Haiti: Challenges of the past and coming year, Democratic Republic of Congo: a polio epidemic, Chechnya: Running Low on healthcare
Licenses just agreed between three generic manufacturers and pharmaceutical company Tibotec, owned by Johnson & Johnson, will keep a promising new AIDS medicine out of the hands of many patients across the developing world, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans...
