Conflict and hostilities in neighbouring Uganda between warring parties propelled MSF to launch its first project in Yei, Central Equatoria. In 1983, a dedicated MSF team including medical and support staff from then southern Sudan and other countries provided emergency medical care to host communities and refugees who were fleeing Uganda civil unrest. A region […]
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ATTACKS MUST STOP NOW Over the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza have been under relentless bombardment. Al-Shifa hospital complex, the biggest health facility where MSF staff are still working, has been hit several times, including the maternity and outpatient departments, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. The hostilities around the hospital have not stopped. […]
Read More… from Gaza: Patients and medical staff trapped in hospitals under fire
Since Oct. 7 we have seen a dramatic increase in violence from Israeli forces in Jenin. Since then, our teams have treated over 30 patients with gunshot and blast wounds. Today, there has been a surge in violence, with widespread bombing and shooting – this morning leaflets were dropped on Jenin refugee camp, telling residents […]
Read More… from Jenin: MSF condemns attacks on healthcare facilities
MSF Canada Executive Director Joseph Belliveau has written to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging him to do everything in his power to bring about an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Dear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, I am writing to you on behalf of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to urgently request that the Canadian Government do everything within […]
It’s 2:30 a.m. and doctors are huddling outside the entrance to Jenin hospital in the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territories. A brief lull in the ricocheting gunfire is followed by the sound of men shouting and the screeching of tyres as a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw, or tuk-tuk, turns into the gates of the hospital. […]
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Following increased fighting in El Geneina in Sudan’s West Darfur, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams operating across the border in eastern Chad have seen an immediate and major increase in the number of people arriving in the region. 36 wounded people were received by MSF teams over the past weekend alone. Refugees coming […]
Today, we are mourning the loss of one of our team members in Gaza, Mohammed Al Ahel, who was killed along with several members of his family on Nov. 6. Mohammed had been a laboratory technician for MSF for over two years and was at his home in Al Shate Refugee Camp when the area […]
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The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2023 Global Tuberculosis (TB) Report released today shows that the estimated global incidence of TB in 2022 remains unacceptably high, including for the more difficult to treat form of this disease, drug-resistant TB (DR-TB). With an estimated 1.3 million people having died from TB in 2022, and still only about […]
Ahead of 7th meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPR), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urged all countries to guarantee that the principles of equity, solidarity, transparency, inclusivity and accountability are at the centre of all future PPR negotiations and […]
Read More… from Equitable access to lifesaving medical products must be prioritized
Thousands of Gazans working in Israel had their permits cancelled after Oct. 7, 2023. Following the attacks carried out by Hamas on Oct. 7, thousands of Gazans working in Israel had their permits cancelled. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Labour, around 6,000 are now displaced in the West Bank, some living in deplorable conditions. […]
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