Since the start of the war in Syria 10 years ago, the lives of Syrian people have been under threat. Back in 2011, the situation quickly shifted from localised protests to a full-scale war, leading to a devastating humanitarian situation that persists a decade later. In the course of 10 years, 12...
After Typhoon Bopha devastated coastal parts of Mindanao island in the Philippines earlier this month, Medecins Sans Frontieres has dispatched two teams to run mobile clinics to provide basic health care, monitor for outbreaks of disease and support recovery efforts. “There has been a massive...
The first phase of a yellow fever vaccination campaign, targeting 2.2 million people in the region of Darfur, ended on December 4, 2012. Launched by the Sudanese health authorities, the international, medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) brought medical and logistical...
It is with great sadness that Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) marks one year since two colleagues, Philippe HAVET and Andrias Karel KEILUHU (“Kace”), were brutally murdered in Mogadishu. Philippe, a 53-year-old emergency coordinator from Belgium, and Andrias Kace, a 44-year-old medical doctor from...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned about the medical consequences following the recent public statements from Kenyan authorities exhorting thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya to leave urban areas and go to remote and already saturated camps. The organisation says that any...
The humanitarian situation in Syria continues to worsen as the war escalates and attacks against health facilities continue. Access to large parts of the country remains extremely difficult due to insecurity and heavy fighting, and more than two million people have been displaced. The number of...
Calls for respect of medical mission Regardless of who is responsible for the recent escalation of attacks against health workers in Pakistan, the targeting of medical personnel has created a situation in which both patients and medical workers are at risk of losing their lives while seeking or...
MSF maintains its hospital services and runs emergency operations On Thursday 20 December, the rebel coalition ‘Seleka’, that has attacked several locations in the north of Central African Republic (CAR) in the last days, entered the town of Batangafo, where MSF is supporting the main hospital. The...
Tens of thousands of people, many of them wounded, are trapped in the city of Deir Azzour, eastern Syria, due to intense fighting and aerial bombardments. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for the sick and wounded to be evacuated to safer locations and for international medical teams to have an...
