Today, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes Dr Joanne LIU as the new International President of MSF. Dr Liu was elected President during MSF’s International General Assembly in June 2013. "Today’s challenges in MSF are many,” says Dr Liu. “With contexts continually evolving, how do we deliver...
Following the agreement brokered between the governments of Russia and the United States of America, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on these two States to place at the top of their diplomatic agendas the substantial scale up of humanitarian...
Central African Republic MSF denounces the targeting of civilian population in a new wave of violence erupted in Bouca, north of Bangui, in Central African Republic. MSF treated 26 people, injured either by machetes or gunshots, including eight women and six children. Democratic Republic of Congo...
26 patients treated with machete and gunshot wounds in Bouca by MSF teams The medical-humanitarian organisation MSF denounces the targeting of civilian population in a new wave of violence erupted in Bouca, 325 km. north of Bangui, in Central African Republic (CAR). MSF treated 26 people, injured...
So it's been a month since I arrived in Chad, and three and a half weeks since making it to the airstrip of Tissi Paradise (as it's fondly known to its MSF inh
Access Campaign With the start of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations taking place in Brunei in August, MSF warned that the negotiators were moving towards finalizing a deal that in fact would restrict access to affordable medicines and constrain governments’ ability to...
A Syrian surgeon working for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Dr Muhammad Abyad, has been killed in northern Syria. His body was found on 3 September in Aleppo province. He was 28 years old. MSF would like to express its sincere condolences to the family and friends of Dr Abyad, who was working in...
We are aware that misconstrued and misused information on MSF in Syria is circulating on the web and social media. We reiterate what we stated in our press release on the 24th of August MSF does not have the capacity to identify the cause of the neurotoxic symptoms of patients reported by three...
