Eight years into the conflict, the war in Yemen is impacting every area of life for people in the district of Ad Dahi. Canadian doctor Matt Cloutier is part of a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team there. “It was my first week working as an ER doctor in a rural hospital in […]
Read More… from Emergency room, Yemen: Resilience in the face of war
By Julien Potet, Senior Advisor on Tropical Diseases and Neglected Diseases for MSF’s Access Campaign Some diseases are more neglected than others. This is the case with snakebites, which are responsible for more than 100,000 deaths every year worldwide. A new MSF publication in Toxicon X highlights the resources needed to improve the management of […]
Read More… from Snake bites: reflecting on the neglected disease
Since 2018, MSF has been supporting a series of eye camps in Somalia, providing treatment and surgery for a range of debilitating eye conditions. Ranging from cataract surgery to treatment for eye diseases to prescribing glasses, the camps provide a one-stop shop for essential eye healthcare. “Eye problems, like many other health issues in […]
Read More… from Somalia: Lifechanging work restoring eyesight and vision at MSF eye camps
Findings that prompted WHO to update global DR-TB treatment guidelines now published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that a much shorter treatment regimen for drug-resistant TB is safer and cured almost 90 per cent of patients. A new all-oral, six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis […]
The future of female patients and health workers in Afghanistan is being threatened by the recent decree issued by the Ministry of Economy prohibiting women from working for non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Though health workers, including MSF staff, are currently exempted from the ban, there is no formal assurance that they will be able to continue […]
Read More… from Afghanistan: “It is difficult to know that we are something less”
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is seeing alarmingly high numbers of patients with malaria and children with malnutrition among flood-affected communities in Sindh and eastern Balochistan provinces, Pakistan. Catastrophic flooding began in June, and the situation remains an emergency, with critical humanitarian needs. The current response is inadequate. The basic needs of people living in the […]
Decades of instability and armed violence in Central African Republic (CAR) have contributed to essential medical care being out of reach for many pregnant women and newborn babies. Overshadowed by the security situation in the country, tackling this everyday emergency is a priority for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF) teams. Divine has been labouring […]
Read More… from Central African Republic: “To be born or to give birth is to take a risk”
The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely relieved at the acquittal of five of our staff, who faced trial in Cameroon, accused of complicity with secession. Four of the staff in question had to endure incarceration for many months. On Dec. 26, 2021, an MSF nurse and ambulance driver were […]
Read More… from Cameroon: All MSF staff acquitted in military tribunal
More than 22 million people were estimated to need humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia in 2022.[1] Many faced the tragic consequences of conflict, particularly communities in the regions of Afar, Amhara, Tigray and Southern Nations (SNNPR). At the same time, natural disasters pushed people’s coping mechanisms to their limits. Communities across the vastness of the Somali […]
Read More… from Ethiopia: At the convergence of humanitarian and climate crises
It has been more than three months since devastating floods caused vast damage across Pakistan and displaced millions, but only in recent weeks have waters started to recede and people been able to return home. Those returning to their villages are finding destroyed houses and land, still surrounded by stagnant water. Meanwhile, those remaining in camps […]