Freezing temperatures and bad weather that struck Greece in early February led the Municipality of Athens to the decision to open temporary emergency shelters for the accommodation of homeless people. Responding to this emergency and in collaboration with the Hospitality and Solidarity Centre of...
MSF provided free medical care to people in north-west CAR and lowered the prevalence of sleeping sickness MSF has handed over the management of a hospital in Maitikoulou, northwestern Central African Republic (CAR) to the Ministry of Health. The project opened in 2008 to combat human African...
A Novartis win could severely restrict production of affordable medicines in India As shareholders of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis meet on Feburary 23 in Basel, Switzerland, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on shareholders to urge...
Maung Myint, “I believe ART will be able to give me a normal life. I dream to be healthy again, to own a flip-flop making business. I don’t know what will happen if I can’t get ART. I don’t know what I will do.” Maung Myint, 38, clings to his water bottle taking frequent sips of the liquid mixed...
By Joe BELLIVEAU, MSF Operations Manager of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) While international attention focuses on Myanmar, a health crisis in the country looms large. An estimated 85,000 people infected with HIV in Myanmar are not receiving lifesaving treatment. This is an improvement on previous...
In a report released today Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the largest provider of HIV treatment in Myanmar (1), highlights the critical need for increased HIV and Tuberculosis (TB), including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), treatment in the country. According to the report, 85,000...
In southern Yemen, where political tensions and clashes continue, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is continuously adapting its activities to ensure access to healthcare for wounded people and life-threatening cases. The organisation is involved in two emergency care facilities, organizes the...
For Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the issue in Syria today is to demilitarize hospitals – not to militarize humanitarian aid. As Syrian armed forces lead a new assault against the city of Homs, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs continues to call for the creation of "humanitarian corridors"...
By Laurent LIGOZAT, Deputy Director of Operations of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) For the past 20 years, the civilian population of Somalia has been trapped by armed conflicts. The drought and violence of 2011 have only worsened an already precarious situation. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis...
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) launches a new report called “Dadaab: Back to square one.” The international medical humanitarian organisation takes stock of the current humanitarian situation and operational challenges in Dadaab, Kenya, home to the world’s largest refugee camp. The open report also...
