As the crisis in Syria intensifies daily, the humanitarian needs – both in Syria and in surrounding countries – are increasing significantly. Many people have been killed and wounded and tens of thousands have fled their homes, leaving behind everything they own. Medical and humanitarian assistance...
Pascual Caballero is a 36-year-old paediatrician from Malaga that has just landed in Madaoua, a small town in the centre of Niger. In this area, as on other six across the country, MSF is working to prevent and treat child malnutrition. The programme has a two-fold objective. On the one hand, MSF...
The response to the Ebola epidemic that broke out at the end of July in Western Uganda is moving forward thanks to the joint effort of MSF, the Ugandan Ministry of Health and other bodies. In approximately one week, the MSF emergency team has set up an Ebola treatment centre, has isolated the...
A mobile team of MSF medics is traveling to remote villages in the unstable southeast of Central African Republic to find and treat people suffering from a neglected disease. As 11-year old Natacha tosses and turns in a hospital bed in a village in Central African Republic (CAR), her parents sit...
An emergency team from MSF has set up a treatment centre for Ebola in Kagadi, western Uganda, where 24 suspected cases have already been admitted. So far the outbreak has claimed the lives of 17 people. MSF staff have also put in place control measures to prevent the epidemic spreading further, and...
New epidemiological data from two refugee camps in South Sudan show mortality and malnutrition rates soaring above emergency thresholds, announced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). More than 170,000 refugees have made the harrowing journey across the border to escape conflict and food insecurity in...
Outbreaks of Ebola are rare, but for Dr. Olimpia de la Rosa, MSF’s emergency coordinator, dealing with the disease is nothing new. The last time Ebola hit Uganda, in 2007, she supported an MSF team fighting the outbreak. Five years later, MSF’s emergency response is again in full swing as teams...
An outbreak of malaria has struck several regions of Orientale Province in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo. In early June, MSF sent an emergency team into the Ganga-Dingila health region, home to approximately 118,000 people living in isolated, hard-to-reach communities lacking access to...
