Extreme violence in Las Anod forces MSF to close activities

MSF Physician Doctor Ahmed Ilyas examining a baby inside an MSF supported Bay Regionl Hospital in Baidoa, SW State, Somalia.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reached the difficult decision to withdraw our services from Las Anod General Hospital, Sool region, located within the internationally-recognized borders of Somalia,* due to increased volatility and repeated security incidents which have impacted the safe delivery of medical care.   Recurrent attacks on medical facilities and the level of […]

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Khartoum: Aid in jeopardy as MSF staff face beatings, death threats and theft

Bashair Hospital hallway with a nurse seated on a blue chair with an open book on the table at the fore ground with patients and nurses interacting in the far ground.

On the afternoon of July 20, four MSF staff as well as four truck drivers and a team of 10 daily workers were stopped by a group of armed men while transporting medical supplies to the Turkish Hospital in southern Khartoum, where MSF provides health care. After arguing about the reasons for MSF’s presence, the […]

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On the soccer field: A tale of community engagement

Football Team dressed in white shirts with MSF logo and green shorts comprising of MSF staff and community members during the multi-day football tournament in the Abyei Special Administrative Area, South Sudan.

In the town of Abyei, a contested area between South Sudan and Sudan, there is an electric atmosphere rivalling that of any World Cup match. This soccer field, however, serves as a witness to community engagement, woven into life by a team working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Abdulrahman Khaleel was two months […]

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Venezuela: providing healthcare to Indigenous communities

MSF Team members loading medical supplies on motor boats in Delta Amacuro state, north eastern Venezuela.

Rivers serve as roads and tropical rainforest stretches to the horizon in Delta Amacuro state, a vast area bordering the Atlantic Ocean in northeastern Venezuela. Largely inaccessible, this region is home to a large number of Indigenous communities who face significant challenges accessing healthcare. Adelia, an 18 year old, is 38 weeks pregnant but has […]

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MSF calls again on J&J to withdraw or abandon extended patents on Tuberculosis drug

MSF laboratory technician running blood tests in Nametil blood bank in the Mogovolas district.

Recent deal offering controlled generics access in limited countries does not go far enough as main patent expires in India today, opening door to more affordable generics. As Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) 20-year primary patent on the critical, lifesaving drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) drug bedaquiline expires in majority of countries including India today, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins […]

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Bangladesh – MSF calls for an urgent and comprehensive response to the scabies outbreak in refugee camps

MSF community-based health promotion volunteers leading a session to a group of people inside a shade in Jamtoli Clinic, Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

An outbreak of scabies, the skin disease, is affecting hundreds of thousands of Rohingya living in refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, demanding an urgent response, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). To bring the outbreak under control, the response needs to be fast and comprehensive and include improvements to water, sanitation and […]

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Haiti: How Canada and others can help address some of the country’s many overlapping crises 

18 MSF team members standing during a debrief at a mobile clinic in Bel Air.

By Michael Lawson, Humanitarian Affairs Officer for MSF Canada “We have no water, we have no food. We have nothing.” That is how one man standing outside a mobile medical clinic run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, described the situation he and his family had been living […]

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Haiti – MSF strongly condemns the violent incursion of armed men in the Tabarre hospital

Two MSF ambulances parked under a tree shade at the MSF Emergency Center of Turgeau.

Last night, approximately 20 armed men violently entered the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Tabarre, in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, to forcibly remove a patient with gunshot wounds who was still in the operating room. MSF strongly condemns this incursion, which demonstrates once again the unprecedented level of violence currently raging in Port-au-Prince. All […]

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MSF condemns denial of medical access during military raid in Jenin

2 MSF team members standing in front of a burnt house surrounded by damaged houses in Jenin.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff are currently providing emergency healthcare in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, following a large-scale raid by Israeli forces in the city’s refugee camp, the largest in the West Bank since 2002.  At least eight people were reported killed, and 91 others have been injured in a […]

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MSF states EU policies are killing people as they search for safety

A man in white shirt with an MSF logo printed on the back.

Following the shipwreck of June 14 which left up to 500 people dead or missing off the coast of Greece, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces EU migration policies and calls for accountability over the lives lost and for a dedicated, proactive, state-led search and rescue mechanism at sea. “The lack of political will […]

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