MSF calls for the opening of a safe and legal passage at the land border between Turkey and Greece Brussels/Athens, 3 December 2015 – A joint operation to rescue people risking their lives on the dangerous sea crossing between Turkey and Greece has been launched by international medical...
Hospital partially destroyed – patients under treatment died in transit A double-tap 1 barrel bombing on Saturday 28 November on a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported hospital in a besieged zone in northern Homs governorate, Syria, has caused 7 deaths, the partial destruction of the hospital...
By Christopher Stokes, General Director, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) The US version of events presented today leaves MSF with more questions than answers. It is shocking that an attack can be carried out when US forces have neither eyes on a target nor access to a no-strike list, and have...
October 3, 2015 will forever remain a black day in MSF’s history. In the early hours of the morning, MSF’s trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan came under precise and repeated airstrikes. Under attack, our colleagues fought for their lives and for the lives of their patients with extraordinary...
The number of patients treated by MSF on a weekly basis in the UN Protection of Civilians Camp (PoC) in Malakal has tripled since June, as the health of the population sheltering in the camp is being jeopardized by overcrowding and substandard living conditions. Presently, almost 48,000 people are...
MSF Asks Supporters in Southeast Asia to TURN RED for more affordable pneumonia vaccine Hong Kong/Jakarta, 12 November 2015—The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) launched ‘A Fair Shot’ online campaign today on World Pneumonia Day...
The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone was declared over on 7 November, but in neighbouring Guinea, people are still being infected by a disease which has claimed more than 11,000 lives in West Africa. But despite the unprecedented scale of the epidemic, there is still much that we do not know about...
Reveals the view from inside the hospital before, during & after airstrikes Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today released to the public an internal document that reviews the 3 October airstrikes by US forces on its hospital in northern Afghanistan. The chronological review of the events leading...
