jeremy, Author at Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...

Malawi: Managing cervical cancer in a country with limited treatment options

Posted on 7 February 2023 (2 May 2023)

Cervical cancer accounts for 37 percent of new cancers in women in Malawi. Since 2018, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer and bring down deaths from the disease in the districts of Blantyre and Chiradzulu. MSF Project Director Marion Péchayre explains how. Why did MSF […]

Syria-Türkiye earthquakes

Posted on 6 February 2023 (23 July 2024)

Powerful earthquakes hit the south of Türkiye and northwest Syria on Feb. 6. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, already present providing humanitarian assistance in northwest Syria, are together with local partners responding to people’s urgent needs in the area since the quakes. Many of our staff have been impacted themselves, whether directly or […]

Overwhelming needs as earthquakes hit south Türkiye and northwest Syria: MSF scales up its response

Posted on 6 February 2023 (25 May 2023)

Latest update on the earthquakes Following the powerful earthquakes that hit the south of Türkiye and northwest Syria on February 6th, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), already supporting the population of northwest Syria, has mobilized its team along with local partners to respond to the increasing needs in the area. So far, the United […]

Migrants in northern Mexico: life on hold waiting for safety

Posted on 3 February 2023 (2 May 2023)

In Matamoros, a city on Mexico’s northern border, about 2,500 migrants are living in a new makeshift camp in deplorable conditions, hoping to seek safety in the US. Esteban Montaño Vásquez, MSF field communications manager for Mexico and Central America visited the camp last week. Here he talks about the people he met and […]

“Finding Home Again”: MSF at Ottawa’s Winterlude Festival 2023

Posted on 3 February 2023 (2 May 2023)

This year, and for the first time, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières is participating in Ottawa’s iconic Winterlude Festival. From Feb. 3 to 20, MSF welcomes everyone to visit our over three-metre-tall ice sculpture located at the corner of O’Connor and Sparks Street. Entitled “Finding Home Again,” the sculpture of mother and […]

Noma takes step towards inclusion on WHO list of neglected tropical diseases

Posted on 2 February 2023 (2 May 2023)

The little-known but life-threatening disease noma is one step closer towards being recognised as a neglected tropical disease (NTD) after international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported Nigeria’s request to the World Health Organization (WHO) to add it to its list of NTDs. After a three-year international advocacy and communication campaign, a […]

Madagascar: malnutrition spikes in the wake of climate shocks

Posted on 1 February 2023 (29 August 2023)

An alarming situation is unfolding in southeast Madagascar, where malnutrition is on the rise in rural communities. People in the southeastern Ikongo district face acute food shortages after harvests were destroyed in last year’s cyclones. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis of January 2023 shows that more than a quarter of the […]

Kenya: Record admissions at MSF hospital in Dadaab, as humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate

Posted on 31 January 2023 (2 May 2023)

Hospital admissions of children suffering from severe malnutrition have spiked in Dagahaley, one of three refugee camps in the Dadaab refugee complex, amid worsening humanitarian conditions in the overcrowded camps. In 2022, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated a record 12,007 patients – an overwhelming majority of whom are children – in its […]

HAITI: MSF forced to suspend activities after armed men kill patient

Posted on 27 January 2023 (2 May 2023)

On Thursday 26 January, armed men entered the Médecins Sans Frontières-supported Raoul Pierre Louis public hospital in Carrefour, a district located to the west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The men dragged a patient out of the emergency room and killed him outside the hospital. It is the second time in six months that this hospital […]

Mexico: Migrants exposed to violence cut off from healthcare

Posted on 25 January 2023 (2 May 2023)

Around 30,000 migrants gather daily in Tapachula (Chiapas). They are a ‘floating population’, since thousands of people come in through this entry point every day in southern Mexico, and many others leave for the northern border. The migrants here are not hard to spot, gathering in squares and parks, in exchange offices or at […]

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