The mental stress of being a refugee can disable a person – even the whole family – making an already difficult situation even harder to cope with. Depression, anxiety and fear are common symptoms, as are unexplained physical complaints. In the camps for refugees who have crossed from Sudan’s Blue...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is increasing its medical activities to help victims of the conflict in Syria. MSF is providing emergency and surgical treatment for the wounded, as well as medical care for people displaced from their homes within Syria and for refugees who have escaped to...
In Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing assistance to vulnerable populations who face extreme levels of violence and lack access to health care. At first glance, the streets of Tegucigalpa seem calm. However, Honduras's homicide rate is the highest in the...
Scale up in provision of medical care urgently needed As Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams work to reach communities affected by the violence in Rakhine State they face ongoing antagonism generated by deep ethnic divisions. In addition thousands of patients benefiting from longer-term...
The harvest is almost in, but MSF continues to admit new patients to its emergency feeding programme in eastern Chad It is early morning, and already hot, when two 4x4 vehicles pull up in front of a small health centre in the village of Angara in eastern Chad. A crowd of women and children huddle...
Two years after the cholera epidemic began, the continued treatment of patients is still not certain, even at a time when the population is still largely exposed to the risks of contamination. In Port-au-Prince, more than 350,000 survivors of the earthquake are still being housed in camps, and many...
More than 170,000 refugees have crossed from South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan and are gathered in five camps in remote and inaccessible areas of South Sudan. Many of the refugees arrived in a very weak condition after weeks of walking, and the health situation in the camps has varied...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will resume medical activities in its maternity hospital in Khost Province, Afghanistan, which were suspended following an explosion in the hospital in April, 2012. The decision to restart medical services was made after a meeting, or jirga, on August 27 between MSF...
“We know about Cholera, Meningitis, Malaria, Polio, small pox… They are the old diseases killing millions of people in last century. In many developed countries, people got vaccination and better health care, they are no longer untreatable.
