Ministerial Conference on Immunisation in Africa presses countries to do more, but gives free pass to pharmaceutical companies charging inflated vaccine prices. As the first-ever Ministerial-level meeting on immunisation in Africa gets underway today, the international medical humanitarian...
Michiel Hofman, MSF Senior Humanitarian Specialist Shocking numbers of civilians are being killed and injured in Syria, with little accountability from the States involved – and in particular the United Nations Security Council, the majority of whose members are backing rival sides in the war. In...
Civilians are under relentless attack in Syria’s five-year-old conflict, with 1.9 million people under siege, borders closed to refugees and rampant bombings of medical facilities and heavily populated areas, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans...
(Update on 17 Feburary) The incident has killed at least twenty-five people , among them nine medical personnel,sixteen patients and caretakers,ten others were wounded. The building was completely desturcted. -------------------------- At least seven people were killed, and at least eight are...
An MSF-supported hospital in Idlib province in northern Syria was destroyed in an attack on Monday morning, said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) . The hospital was hit four times in two series of at least two attacks within a few minutes of each other, and at least eight members of staff are...
An escalation of fighting will trigger further massive displacement and deepen humanitarian crisis As heavy fighting in Azaz district, northern Syria, displaces tens of thousands more people, the already devastated health system is close to collapse, and any escalation of fighting will further...
Airstrikes have hit an MSF-supported hospital in Dara’a governorate, southern Syria, killing three people and wounding at least six, including a nurse, says Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The strike on Tafas field hospital, some 12 km from the Jordanian border, took place...
As representatives from the United States and 11 other Pacific-Rim countries gather in New Zealand today to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, the fight to protect access to medicines in TPP countries is intensifying at the national level, with legislative processes starting...
Residents of the besieged Syrian town of Madaya continue to die of starvation, despite the provision of aid in convoys, as the Syrian government-led coalition blocks life-saving medical supplies from the town, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on 29 January (Friday). “It is totally unacceptable...
