Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is alarmed by the situation of HIV/AIDS patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the lack of priority given by the Congolese authorities and the withdrawal of donors, all occurring as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis prepares to...
In the forests of central India, Maoist rebels called Naxalites are fighting government forces to control great swathes of the interior. People living in dozens of tribal villages are caught up in the conflict, unable to reach the Health Ministry’s clinics in Chhattisgarh state. Dr. Rebecca...
MSF suspends work in detention centres in Misrata Detainees in the Libyan city of Misrata are being tortured and denied urgent medical care, leading the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend its operations in detention centres in Misrata. MSF...
In the State of Jonglei in South Sudan, civilians continue to bear the brunt of inter-communal fighting. Wounded patients are still arriving at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Pibor, three weeks after the violent attack on the town and outlying villages in Pibor County. Many were...
Others projects in Somalia continue, but MSF medical assistance in Somali capital reduced by half Following the tragic killings of our colleagues Philippe HAVET and Dr. Andrias Karel KEILUHU in Mogadishu, Somalia, on the 29th of December 2011, the medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans...
A cholera epidemic in Chad in 2010-2011 was the largest to hit the country in the last 15 years, with more than 17, 000 registered cases. Over the last year MSF has treated more than 12,700 patients, approximately three quarters of all the cases in the country. In order to prevent another emergency...
Following inter-communal violence on 11th January in northern Jonglei State, South Sudan, the medical humanitarian aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres referred by air thirteen patients with serious wounds from the organisation’s clinic in Yuai, Jonglei State. The patients were taken to MSF’s...
