Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, has been in the grip of violence for weeks but most of the city’s hospitals are no longer functioning. MSF project coordinator Jessie GAFFRIC describes the situation. She is managing our operations in the city’s only trauma unit, located in the...
Assault on Malakal compound is second looting of an MSF facility in one week Thousands of people are at risk of being left without desperately needed medical care after the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to suspend activities in Malakal, South Sudan,...
Heavy fighting in South Sudan’s Upper Nile, Unity and Jonglei states has left thousands of people newly displaced and hundreds wounded, says the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). During the recent fighting, MSF teams treated 116 people with gunshot wounds in Malakal...
Dr Natalie ROBERTS has spent two months working in the Philippines, running MSF’s inflatable hospital in Tacloban I arrived in Tacloban a week after the typhoon. As soon as the town came into view from the air, the level of devastation became apparent. The runway was surrounded by debris – cars,...
A week after five international members of staff were taken from an MSF house in northern Syria, on the evening of 2nd January, MSF continues to put all efforts in securing their safe return. Our missing colleagues are from Belgium, Denmark, Peru, Sweden and Switzerland. They were working in an MSF...
Three weeks of fighting raging throughout much of South Sudan are having increasingly serious consequences for the country’s population, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). With the increase in people’s needs, with resources made more scarce following the departure of many international...
Every day, boat after boat arrives at Awerial, on the west bank of the Nile in Lakes state, carrying people fleeing the violence in Bor, the capital of neighbouring Jonglei state. Mostly women and children, they carry the few belongings they could salvage. In just two weeks, more than 75,000 people...
Visit “See What We See” multimedia website The fight against HIV/AIDS has been hailed as one of the most successful public health projects in human history, but teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) see the revolution as unfulfilled for millions of people excluded from treatment. MSF launches a...
