Amsterdam/Iraq – The Hawijah offensive has forcibly displaced nearly 14,000 people to towns in neighbouring districts of Kirkuk governorate. According to international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), they are arriving in vulnerable
In just over a month, more than half a million Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh following a wave of targeted violence in the neighbouring Rakhine State of Myanmar. Most of the newly arrived refugees
On Monday 23 October, in Geneva, MSF President Dr Joanne Liu will speak at a Pledging Conference for the Rohingya Refugee Crisis organized by OCHA, IOM and UNHCR and co-hosted by the European Union and
Tamatave – On Wednesday 18th October, international humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) began working with local authorities to tackle an outbreak of pneumonic plague in the port city of Tamatave in the East
New Delhi, 13 October 2017 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders India has filed a petition before the High Court of Delhi to overturn the patent granted on the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) to the
Name : Designation : MSF staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo are living through the same trauma as their patients On the edge of a copse of eucalyptus trees, a play is underway. It’s a familiar tragedy with
Virginia Lee is a counsellor from Australia who recently spent seven months working as a mental health coordinator in a community clinic in Delhi. The clinic offers medical and psychological care to survivors of domestic
Name : Designation : Violence at home can have a devastating impact on mental health. In Kamrangirchar, Bangladesh, MSF counsellors are helping women to cope. “Before, I had no courage to help other women because I was
In a new report titled “Games of Violence”, the medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) uses medical and mental health data and the testimonies of young patients to expose the violence that continues to
More than 500,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since 25 August and face enormous challenges in accessing healthcare, food, shelter and water. Kate White, Emergency Medical Coordinator with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Bangladesh
Name : Designation : Even as Yemen was reeling from the effects of a relentless war, a cholera epidemic broke out in April 2017. In the ensuing months, the epidemic would engulf almost the entire
MSF asks warring parties and their backers not to strike health care facilities Amid a sharp intensification of bombing over northwestern Syria (mainly Idlib governorate and north of Hama governorate) since Tuesday 19 September, hospitals
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