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On the soccer field: A tale of community engagement

Posted on 19 July 2023 (19 July 2023) by

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 […]

Venezuela: providing healthcare to Indigenous communities

Posted on 17 July 2023 (19 July 2023) by

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 […]

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

Posted on 14 July 2023 (19 July 2023) by

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 […]

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

Posted on 13 July 2023 (19 July 2023) by

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 […]

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

Posted on 12 July 2023 (19 July 2023) by

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 […]

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

Posted on 7 July 2023 (19 July 2023) by

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 […]

MSF condemns denial of medical access during military raid in Jenin

Posted on 6 July 2023 (19 July 2023) by

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 […]

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

Posted on 4 July 2023 (19 July 2023) by

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 […]

Little Birds: migrant children tell their stories from a shelter in northern Mexico

Posted on 23 June 2023 (2 August 2023) by

A Drawing of a Migrant Child explaining their wounds of uprooting, the multiple risks along the way, and their dreams as they wait indefinitely at a shelter in Reynosa, near the US border.

“I would like to be in my country, I miss it,” says Luis as he draws with crayons on a blank sheet of paper. He is in the chapel of a shelter for migrants in Reynosa, very close to the U.S. border. At just nine years old, Luis can tell countless stories about what he […]

Brother and Sister in Chad’s Andressa, on the border with Sudan

Posted on 29 June 2023 (5 July 2023) by

MSF nurse triaging children at the Andréssa site in Sila province for Refugees from Sudan and host communities in eastern Chad an the MSF mobile Clininc.

Neal Russell is a pediatric doctor and advisor based in London – who has been working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for 10 years. Following a recent visit to MSF’s project in Chad’s eastern region of Sila near the border with Sudan, Neal provides his account of the situation he witnessed there. He […]