International organisation had to interrupt its work in Al Talh and Razeh hospitals, after local authorities set new conditions for humanitarian activities in the region Humanitarian medical organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) announced today that its emergency activities in Saada...
Monsoon rains and floods continue to ravage southern Pakistan, leaving tens of thousands of people displaced and vulnerable in Sindh province. In the coming days, an MSF team of 13 will launch mobile clinics in camps for people displaced from their homes in southern Badin district, in the sub-...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team, including medical doctors, nurses, logistician, water and sanitation professional, will launch mobile clinic on 20 September in one of the internally displaced people’s camps, in the sub-district of Tando Bago in southern Badin, Pakistan. Distributing safe...
The international medical-humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in association with its research partner Epicentre, has announced it will host the 2011 International Symposium on Reducing Child Mortality in Melbourne, Australia. This one-day symposium will be held on Tuesday 15...
Up to sixteen civilians have been killed during an attack on Zriglo, a village in Southwest Ivory Coast just south of the town of Taï, late last week. Up to 50 houses have been burned and most of the population fled into the forests. The attack on Zriglo is part of the ongoing violence in Southwest...
Following a bomb blast on 15 September at a funeral in the Jandol area of Lower Dir in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, dozens of severely injured people have been treated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams and existing medical staff in the Timergara District Hospital emergency room. Seven people...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is currently battling outbreaks of cholera and measles in and around the town of Marere in southern Somalia. Marere and the surrounding villages of Jilib, Keytoy and Osman Moto are host to around five thousand displaced Somalis, who have fled conflict and drought...
With the monsoon season in full swing, the independent medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been receiving an increasing number of patients with acute watery diarrhoea in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK) as well as in Kurram Agency in the...
Mobilizing financial and technical resources must be a political priority in fight against resurgent outbreaks On September 13-14, the Measles Initiative will meet in Washington, D.C., bringing together organisations seeking to eliminate measles disease worldwide. Given the troubling resurgence of...
The current emergency unfolding in and around Somalia is being portrayed by many aid organisations and the media in one-dimensional terms, such as “famine in the Horn of Africa” or “worst drought in 60 years”. But only blaming natural causes ignores the complex geopolitical realities exacerbating...
