MSF mortality survey shows children urgently need better access to healthcare An “alarmingly high” number of children under the age of five are dying in parts of Central African Republic, according to the findings of a new mortality survey conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). A principal...
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A political crisis has divided Mali since the end of January. People are leaving the regions in the north of Mali; refugees and displaced people have been hiding in the bush or fleeing en masse to Burkina Faso, Niger and Mauritania. Often they settle in places where people are living already –...
A typical Monday for me begins with a 4WD ride, heading over unpaved roads from the small town of Thyolo to Thekerani village where I spend most days of every week working.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expresses deep concern about the security of its surgical center in Aden after a group of armed men forcibly entered the hospital on Monday night (18th/19th June) and attempted to take away a patient, who was being treated in the emergency room. MSF staff tried its...
Amina arrived in Dadaab in 1992, when she was one year old. Born in Afmadow, Somalia, she fled from her own country because of violence, drought and a lack of food. In the refugee camp, she shares a shelter with her husband, her young daughter and another 12 members of her extended family. Amina...
‘There are solutions for all these problems. It’s just that more needs to be done, fast.’ Nurse Chiara BURZIO is working at Médecins Sans Frontières’s field hospital in Jamam refugee camp in Maban county, Upper Nile State, South Sudan. I’ve just returned from three hours at the temporary refugee...
With continued tension and unrest in Rakhine Sate, Myanmar, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is seriously concerned that those people most affected by violence and deep communal divisions, are unable to receive medical treatment. MSF was forced to suspend most of its medical activities in Rakhine...
