Along with continuing to run its existing programs in Mali, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are prioritizing attempts to reach the outskirts and the town of Konna, in the center of the country. MSF is negotiating to obtain access to the region in order to assess medical and humanitarian needs...
Following violent fighting in Konna and bombardments in Lere and then in Douentza and Gao, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all the parties to the conflict in Mali to respect the safety of civilians and to leave health structures untouched. In Douentza, a town to the northeast of Mopti, the...
At least 20 people were killed and 99 were injured when warplanes bombed a market in Azaz, northern Syria on 13 January, according to Médecins Sans Frontières. Twenty of the wounded, all of them civilians, were treated in an MSF medical facility. The attack on the market in Azaz, near the Turkish...
Three years after the 2010 earthquake, the Haitian health care system is still devastated. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to manage four hospitals built to replace the temporary structures that it set up immediately after January 12, 2010. Thanks to these facilities, tens of thousands of...
In the north of Syria’s Idlib province, civilians are being made victims of a terror strategy carried out through intense and indiscriminate bombing, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. As fighting intensifies north of the road linking Aleppo and Idlib, government forces are bombing towns...
One year after the start of the political crisis in Mali, insecurity resulting from the military coup, the Tuareg rebellion and the presence of armed islamist groups in the north have displaced hundred thousands of people. Some 55,000 refugees are still living in difficult conditions in the Mbera...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has resumed medical activities at its maternity hospital in Khost Province, Afghanistan, which were suspended following an explosion in the hospital in April, 2012. The reopening follows the demonstration of strong support to MSF, and reassurance over the last few...
MSF has had to drastically reduce its medical activities in Bangui airport, following two days of shooting close to MSF’s clinic at the airport which has resulted in two young children being killed and 40 wounded arriving at MSF’s clinic . MSF is now operating at the airport camp with a reduced...
MSF calls for rapid registration in countries with high drug-resistant tuberculosis burden Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomed the approval by the US Food and Drug Administration of bedaquiline, the first new drug active against tuberculosis (TB) to be registered since 1963. “The first new drug...
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