Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), targeted by armed groups, calls on the new government to take responsibility and restore order in the Central African Republic. Many people remain without medical care due to the evacuation of humanitarian teams. Uncontrolled armed groups in the Central African...
Everyday, 600 children and 4,000 adults die of a treatable and manageable disease. After decades of struggle against HIV/AIDS there is still an urgent need to do more to stop people dying needlessly. Despite available and mostly affordable drugs, tools and models of care that work, is it acceptable...
Following deadly clashes in Timbuktu, Mali on March 30-31, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working in the city’s hospital treated 21 wounded people, including 11 civilians, two of whom died. Sporadic clashes between soldiers and armed groups prevent residents from traveling within Timbuktu,...
In October 2011, Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut were abducted from the Ifo 2 refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, where they had been working to help some of the most vulnerable members of the Somali population. They were then transferred to Somalia and they are still being held against their will...
Decision safeguard access to affordable medicines and prevent abusive patenting of medicines The landmark decision by the Indian Supreme Court in Delhi to uphold India's Patents Act in the face of the seven-year challenge by Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis is a major victory for patients'...
Loïc Jaeger just spent two months in Syria as a project manager in one of three covert hospitals that MSF manages inside the country. He describes the humanitarian situation and the response that MSF is engaged in. What is the situation in this crisis after two years of conflict? The situation is...
Jordan MSF has opened a 24-hour paediatric hospital with an operational capacity of 30 beds and 3 emergency beds. in Zaatari Camp where more than 100,000 Syrian refugees are settled here. The hospital shall receive cases of children patients of one month up to 10 years old. Libya In response to an...
Tribal clashes over the ownership of a gold mine have already forced nearly 100,000 people from their homes in the Jebel Amir region of Sudan’s North Darfur this year. A decade has passed since the Darfur conflict began, and there are still dire medical needs in the region. Despite efforts to...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all parties in the Central African Republic to allow patients to reach medical facilities, receive the medical care they need and calls to respect medical staff, offices and health structures. As the opposition group known as Seleka takes charge of the...
