Amidst bombing of south Kordofan village, MSF facility attacked During an aerial attack on a Sudanese village, Sudan’s air force bombed and partially destroyed a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the war-torn South Kordofan region Monday, depriving civilians of critical medical care...
Since the South Sudanese Ministry of Health declared a cholera outbreak in Juba, the country's capital, on 15 May 2014, more than 1,306* patients have been treated for the disease, and 29 people have died. *Latest official WHO report - Situation Report # 20 as at 23:59 Hours, 04 June 2014 This week...
While the number of patients appeared to be in decline, new cases of Ebola have been reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The virus has already affected more than 300 people in West Africa. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is continuing its work supporting health authorities in the two countries,...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has just evacuated a number of staff members from the city of Ndélé in the North of Central African Republic (CAR) following fresh attacks on its staff and facilities. Around 1:30 in the morning on 2 June, four armed men entered the MSF house in Ndélé as part of a...
Following heavy clashes this week in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided medical supplies, including dressings, bandages, syringes, antibiotics and stretchers, to three public hospitals in Donetsk and one public hospital in Luhansk. “A number of...
María SIMÓN has borne witness to the degradation of the conflict hitting the Central African Republic for over one year. She has been operations coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières in Kabo (in the north of the country) for the past seven months and she admits it has not been easy. It has been...
Vaccine should be used to help control and prevent deadly outbreaks An oral cholera vaccine protected individuals by 86 percent during a recent outbreak in Guinea, according to a New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) study to be published tomorrow. The study, conducted by Epicentre, research arm...
