MSF has launched an emergency intervention and continues to reinforce its teams to respond to an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Guinea. To date, Guinean health authorities have reported 134 suspected cases and 84 deaths. 52 international staff are working alongside Guinean MSF staff and in...
With eight confirmed cases of Ebola reported in the capital Conakry, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is facing an unprecedented epidemic in terms of the distribution of cases now scattered in several locations in Guinea. “We are facing an epidemic of a magnitude never before seen in terms of the...
Following a bomb blast in Kunduz city in northern Afghanistan on 25 March 2014, MSF received 23 patients at its trauma centre. MSF medical teams treated 17 wounded patients, while six people were dead on arrival or died shortly thereafter. Of the 17 patients treated by MSF, five suffered life-...
From the 22nd to the 24th March, heavy fire from automatic weapons and grenade explosions were heard around the PK5 and PK12 neighbourhoods in Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic (CAR). MSF teams treated 38 wounded, three of whom died of their injuries. Thousands of Muslims have been...
In response to the Ebola epidemic that has broken out in Guinea, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to reinforce its teams in Guéckédou and Macenta, two towns in the south of the country where the virus has spread. 30 staff members are already on the ground and more doctors, nurses and...
24th March is the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day. A new briefing paper by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) outlines why the alarming spread of deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is one of the biggest global health threats we face today. It calls on governments, pharmaceutical...
An outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in southern Guinea has prompted Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to launch an emergency response. Twenty-four MSF doctors, nurses, logisticians and hygiene and sanitation experts are already in the country, while additional staff will strengthen the team in the...
The first torrential rains of the season have left large parts of Tomping camp, in the capital Juba, under water, worsening the already unacceptable living conditions for more than 25,000 people packed into the camp. Last week, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to temporarily suspend...
Update March 2014 Three years of extremely violent war have ripped apart towns, villages, hospitals, clinics – everything that Syrians relied on for their existence. Throughout the country, families that can are fleeing from one place of refuge to the next, each time with fewer belongings and more...
