Ebola survivor Amie Subah tells her story: I contracted Ebola through midwifing a pregnant woman. Unfortunately, the woman was infected and she died of the virus as well as her baby. Eight staff members from the clinic where I worked, including myself, got infected through that delivery. Only two...
From July to December 2014, Dr Yasmine Ley headed up the neonatal unit at MSF’s obstetrics and gynaecology hospital in Peshawar, northern Pakistan. A look back at her six-month mission. “Her father hadn’t whispered Allah’s name at her birth*. He did it on the twenty-fifth day, when we were...
Thousands of people fleeing violence in the contested border area between Sudan and South Sudan are in desperate need of food, water and medical care. MSF has launched an emergency intervention to assist them as they arrive, mostly empty-handed, in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state in South Sudan,...
A trial of the experimental Ebola drug brincidofovir in Liberia has been halted due to a significant drop in the number of new Ebola cases, coupled with the 30 January announcement by the drug’s manufacturer that it would no longer participate in the trial. Led by Oxford University, the trial into...
As fighting in eastern Ukraine continues to escalate, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urging all parties to the conflict to halt shelling of hospitals and ensure civilians can reach safe places. In response to the surge in violence over the last two weeks, the organisation is urgently expanding...
Malawi was recently devastated by the largest floods in living memory. Three weeks later people are still struggling to get on with their lives and preparing as best they can for a difficult future ahead, like the arrival of a new baby. Berita didn't run when the floods hit. She didn't run because...
Because access to people trapped in conflict areas has been systematically denied by the authorities in Sudan, the Brussels-based operational centre of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today announces that it can no longer reach communities in the greatest need, and therefore has been forced to close...
Emilie Rouvroy is Médecins Sans Frontières’ coordinator in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine. The fighting has intensified dramatically since last week and the situation here is deteriorating rapidly. In the last five days, there has been heavy fighting, we hear the constant boom of shelling and crackle of...
Typhoon Haiyan, which ripped through the Philippines on 8 th November 2013, was one of the worst storms in recorded history, claiming 6,300 lives and displacing over 4 million people. As one of the world's foremost providers of emergency relief, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) had dispatched teams...
Reaching zero cases difficult unless weaknesses in the response addressed A downward trend of new cases is reported in Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola management centres across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with just over 50 patients currently in its eight centres. While this is a...
