Airstrikes and clashes dominate daily life in Syria Alia MOSA lies on a bed in a hospital in northern Syria. Her feet are wrapped in bandages. She is angry and despairing, and desperate to tell her story. “It was 5 am,” she says. “They launched missiles and my house was totally destroyed. Four of...
A Syrian doctor working with MSF explains the medical needs now that Syria is at war. “This place used to be a school. It has now become an out-patient clinic; it comprises an in-patient doctor, a pediatrician, a gynecology clinic. The proportion of patients with diabetes and hypertension has...
Barrie ROONEY, a laboratory scientist from County Leitrim, Ireland swapped her lecturing job in Kent, England to join MSF’s mobile sleeping sickness team in a remote corner of Democratic Republic of Congo. She describes days getting up before dawn to screen whole villages for the disease and nights...
Steve Rubin, MSF surgeon, talks about the medical needs in Syria “Before the war, people in Syria had good quality care. Some of the people really want that care again. So they come in here because they don’t have any other options to go to anymore. Other than us, everybody else is doing war trauma...
In Syria the number of people in need of urgent medical care keeps increasing. MSF runs six hospitals, four health centres and several mobile clinic programmes inside Syria. While these medical programmes are undoubtedly saving dozens of lives every day, the extremely high insecurity means that MSF...
Access Campaign As negotiations for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement moved to Malaysia, MSF urged negotiating countries to remove terms that could adversely affect access to affordable medicines by people from developing countries, choke off production of generic medicines, and constrain...
It is with great relief that Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirms that Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, abducted from the Dadaab refugee camp, in Kenya, on 13 October 2011, have been released. Both are safe and healthy and keen to join their loved ones as soon as possible. MSF will offer...
Families ask for privacy in these sensitive moments Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, the two aid workers for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released yesterday in Somalia after 21 months in captivity, will arrive today at the Spanish air-base of Torrejón (Madrid) from Djibouti. The organisation...
MSF teams treating wounded and sick on both sides of fighting Escalating intercommunal clashes have left an unknown number of dead and injured and forced 120,000 people to flee into the bush in South Sudan’s Jonglei state. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams on the ground have treated hundreds of...
As negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement* move to Malaysia this week, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) urges negotiating countries to remove terms that could block people from accessing affordable...
