Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) to identify a suitable place of refuge immediately for the 30,000 new refugees who have crossed the border from Sudan’s Blue Nile State into South Sudan’s Upper Nile State over the past two weeks. Around 2,000 people...
“Many of our patients are children affected by violent incidents and army incursions” Relentless harassment by both settlers and the Israeli forces, and the hardship of living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is taking a high toll on the mental health of the Palestinian population. MSF is...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is widening its health and nutrition programs in Chad to respond to the growing malnutrition crisis in the country. The aid organisation is currently treating malnourished children at five projects in the country, and has dispatched emergency teams to conduct...
The independent medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has postponed the decision on whether to resume work in our Khost maternity. With five weeks passed since an explosion occurred inside the maternity, wounding seven people, we still do not feel that the environment is...
As a food crisis in Chad continues to grow, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is expanding the number of emergency malnutrition treatment programs in the country to help curb soaring levels of severe acute malnutrition. Even in a normal year, Chad has one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition...
Because of the hot weather and unpredictable rain, agriculture is not that reliable in South Sudan. Just like last year when the rain decrease, there was failure of crops which lead to shortage of food this year.
MSF has handed over one of its largest projects for Somali refugees in Ethiopia. The number of refugees crossing the border has significantly gone down since the humanitarian crisis of last year. MSF initiated the project in Hiloweyn camp, one of the five refugee camps near to the border between...
MSF forced to suspend lifesaving medical activities after restrictions imposed on its work As a result of increasing restrictions imposed by Sudanese authorities, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to suspend most of its medical activities in the...
65th World Health Assembly to debate binding convention on research and development The world’s health ministers, gathering in Geneva for the World Health Assembly this week, will decide whether or not to start the process for a binding agreement that would jumpstart research and development (R...
