In just two weeks, more than 670 victims of sexual violence have been treated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in camps for displaced people around Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, representing 48 new victims per day. These shocking figures reflect the extreme vulnerability and risk of violence faced by displaced […]
Vulnerable people in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince are caught in a spiral of ongoing violence and insecurity, living under the threat of stray bullets and kidnappings as well as economic precarity. Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs mobile clinics almost daily to treat hundreds of children, women, men, and elderly people trapped in their neighbourhoods. In […]
Read More… from Haiti: MSF mobile clinics in Port-au-Prince treat people stranded by violence
Living in constant fear of eviction, seeing their homes demolished and having their movements restricted are some of the challenges faced by Palestinians in and around Masafer Yatta, in the southern West Bank of Palestine. In its new report The unbearable life: the health impacts of the Israeli measures to forcibly evict the residents of […]
In August 2017, a coordinated campaign of violence by the Myanmar military against members of that country’s Rohingya ethnic minority drove hundreds of thousands of people to flee across Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh in search of safety. […]
In Madagascar, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing an alarming rate of malnutrition in southeastern districts where families are dealing with a triple crisis of food insecurity, malaria, and extreme weather events. Between January and April over 1,200 children under five years old suffering from severe acute malnutrition were admitted to […]
Read More… from Madagascar: Struggling to survive a triple crisis
Unprecedented numbers of malnourished children in need of lifesaving treatment are being brought to therapeutic feeding centres run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno state, in northeast Nigeria. MSF is warning of an impending catastrophe if immediate action is not taken. The number of admissions since the start of […]
Kirer Koleka is patiently standing at the back of a queue with her one-year-old daughter strapped to her back and her six-year-year old daughter by her side. Kirer and her daughters are waiting to receive an essential item, mosquito nets, required to prevent malaria which is endemic in South Sudan. Kirer and her family […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Malaria prevention is an urgent task
Ongoing violence continues in many parts of Sudan. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams on the ground report that hospitals are overwhelmed and thousands are fleeing to safer areas. Already we are seeing immense humanitarian and medical needs. “During a lull in the fighting, MSF was able to make a donation of medical supplies to a […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF responds to medical needs, prepares to scale up activities
In September 2022, a rare variant of Ebola, the so-called Sudan strain, began spreading in Uganda. Logistician Bonnet Kamate Kihugo has worked for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) around the world for nearly 20 years, but never with Ebola. Despite this, he didn’t hesitate when asked to join the project. It has been intense. […]
Read More… from MSF logistician ’a spider in the centre of the web’
“Having consistent, quality water allows the hospital to receive patients and provide them with safe care.” Carlos, age 4, stares at a group of children not much older than him, who are bathing and playing in a stagnant water well in front of his house. The young boy lives with his family and a […]