Intense unabated fighting and shelling in Gaza city continue to prevent thousands of people from safely leaving the area. Over the past six days, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been trying to evacuate some of its staff and their families – 137 people, 65 of them children – currently trapped inside MSF premises located […]
This year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and other humanitarian organizations has also responded to epidemics of climate-sensitive diseases, including multiple concurrent cholera outbreaks and the rise of dengue and malaria in several areas, including in conflict-affected settings. MSF and other aid organizations are already struggling to meet the rising health and humanitarian needs. […]
Read More… from MSF Policy Brief for The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change 2023
Clinical trial results presented for the first time today at the Union World Conference on Lung Health revealed evidence to support the use of four new, improved regimens to treat multi-drug resistant tuberculosis or rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB). The team—led by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Partners In Health (PIH), and Interactive Research and Development […]
Read More… from Landmark Clinical Trial Redefines Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Options
An unconscionable ban that is preventing life-saving surgical supplies from being transported to hospitals in RSF-controlled areas of Khartoum is putting the lives of hundreds of people – including women and children – at risk and must be immediately reversed, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Implemented since early September, and communicated to MSF […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF says unconscionable surgical ban in Khartoum must be immediately reversed
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 […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Unshattered hope in the face of adversities
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. […]
Read More… from Israeli forces and settlers ramp up violence against Palestinians in West Bank
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 […]