Despite decades of international aid and investment, Afghans still struggle to access basic and emergency medical care due to insecurity, distance, cost and the fact that many health facilities lack the staff and equipment they need, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today on the release of its report Reality Check: Afghanistan’s neglected healthcare […]
Read More… from Afghanistan: Multiple barriers increase struggle for medical care
In a pink room decorated with white flowers at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) Kutupalong field hospital in Bangladesh, a woman lies curled around her sleeping child. It could be a peaceful scene, except for the intravenous lines snaking up from each child’s arm to a saline drip. This is an isolation ward and all […]
Read More… from Bangladesh: MSF tackles measles outbreak in Rohingya refugee camps
Nearly 44,000 Venezuelans fleeing the economic and political crisis gripping their country have arrived in Arauca, northeastern Colombia, in recent years. Although they find what they need to survive there, many face precarious situations that are not being adequately addressed. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) offer vital medical services in the Tame region’s […]
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New migration policies imposed by the United States and Mexico are trapping many Central Americans in dangerous conditions, with severe consequences for their physical and mental health, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a report released today. The report, No Way Out, is based on 480 interviews and […]
Read More… from US/Mexico: Migrations Policies’ Health Impacts
Interview with Luis Eguiluz, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Head of Mission in Nigeria since 2017 on the ongoing humantiarian crisis inthe northeast of the country. You arrived in Nigeria in September 2017; do you think the situation for the population in Borno has improved since then? After more than 10 years of conflict […]
Read More… from Northeast Nigeria: ‘The conflict is intensifying and the needs are massive’
In Moria camp, on the island of Lesvos, the Greek government is deliberately depriving at least 140 children with chronic, complex and life-threatening diseases of adequate medical care. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on the Greek government to act on these grave medical concerns and evacuate all severely ill children to the […]
Read More… from Lesvos: Greece denies healthcare to children n Moria camp
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) protested in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York today, demanding the pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J) make the tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline available for all people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) for no more than a dollar a day. The price of this crucial drug […]
Read More… from Tuberculosis: MSF protests price of lifesaving drug as J&J release earnings
Here’s a look at just a few of the humanitarian emergencies that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has responded to over the last 10 years.
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In 2017, when the war to retake Iraqi cities from the Islamic State (IS) group was leaving scores of people dead, wounded or maimed, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened the Baghdad Medical Rehabilitation Centre (BMRC) in the Iraqi capital to provide early medical and physical rehabilitation to the men, women and children […]
Read More… from Iraq: MSF treats wounded protesters in Baghdad