Monsoon rains have plagued Pakistan for months and have become yet more intense in recent weeks, causing widespread damage in much of the country. Millions of people have lost their homes and are being forced to sleep in makeshift shelters, while many health structures are damaged or not functioning. MSF teams are stepping up […]
Read More… from Pakistan: “These floods will likely affect the population for months”
Pakistan is suffering widespread destruction from flooding due to exceptionally heavy monsoon rains, affecting some 33 million people. One-third of the country is now underwater, according to Pakistani officials. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are on the ground providing primary health care, drinking water, and essential supplies, although access to some areas remains […]
Read More… from Pakistan: MSF provides help in some of the areas hardest hit by severe floods
Since 2014, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been supporting the Sokoto Noma Hospital, the only hospital in Nigeria – and one of the few in the world -, with a programme of activities for people affected by noma, including noma survivors and their families. Noma is a neglected disease that affects people, especially children, […]
Vulnerable migrants and people seeking asylum who are held in prolonged detention in Lithuania are consequently experiencing an alarming deterioration in their mental health. The Lithuanian authorities’ flawed migration practices and legal processes are further discriminating against certain nationalities, and contributing to the continued detention of these people, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors […]
By Jason Nickerson, MSF’s Humanitarian Representative to Canada
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A growing, yet largely ignored, malnutrition crisis is unfolding in northwest Nigeria, which threatens the lives of tens of thousands of children, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. Since January, MSF teams, working in partnership with Nigerian health authorities in five northwestern states, have already treated more than 50,000 children with acute malnutrition, […]
By Laura Panqueva Otálora, Head of Communications for Mexico and Central America. Since August 2021, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working in the department of Escuintla, to implement a comprehensive, simple, sustainable and reproducible care model that seeks to ensure timely diagnosis and management to reduce the morbidity associated with chronic kidney disease […]
Read More… from Guatemala: MSF responding to chronic kidney disease
Haitian migrants who are risking their lives to flee conflict face still more dangers on the journey through Latin America. Haitians seeking asylum in the United States continue to be at risk of being expelled and sent back to a country in crisis. The capital, Port-au-Prince, has become a battleground between armed groups, causing thousands […]
“For people like us who have survived war, shelling and daily violence, the coronavirus has been the last of our concerns,” says Em Mahmoud, a Syrian woman from Idlib. “When the number of cases started rising in northern Syria, I tried to persuade my husband to take the vaccine, but he was afraid,” she says. […]
More than 570 people, including 24 pregnant women, have received emergency medical and psychological first aid on 42 occasions over the past year by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) after arriving in small boats on the Greek island of Samos. All had travelled from Turkish waters, which is just a few kilometers away. Many had […]