European governments must come to their senses and end policies which trap extremely vulnerable people in Libya or leave them to die at sea, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), as governments gather for
Name : Designation : Story of Marie-Vincent, an ebola survivor “At first, we didn’t believe in Ebola,” says Marie-Vincent, a woman recently discharged from MSF’s Ebola treatment centre (ETC) in Bikoro, Democratic Republic of Congo
A surge in airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Hassakeh and Deir ez-Zor governorates, in northeast Syria, is bringing in an increasing number of patients to the MSF-supported hospital in Hassakeh. In the 10
Amsterdam/Valencia, 17 June 2018 – Following this week’s political stand-off over the fate of people rescued in the Mediterranean, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces Italy’s closure of its ports
Kala azar Elimination is not possible without addressing the emerging issue of kala azar-HIV coinfection. As a disease that affects the most vulnerable and poorest in society, the deep-rooted stigma and the inadequate state of
Summary Since the Ebola epidemic in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was declared on 8 May 2018, 60 people who presented symptoms of haemorrhagic fever, including 37 confirmed Ebola cases and 27 deaths (of whom 13 were confirmed as Ebola)*, have been
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urging European Member States to facilitate the immediate disembarkation of 629 people rescued over the weekend in the Mediterranean and now on board the Aquarius, a dedicated search
Name : Designation : Paul Jawor, an MSF water and sanitation expert, has just returned from Equateur province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Paul was working in and around the remote village of
Kinshasa – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) yesterday started vaccinating Ebola frontline workers in Bikoro, Equateur Province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the organisation has been working with the Ministry of Health and
During the evening of May 23, between 5 to 6 pm, more than one hundred refugees and migrants who had been kidnapped and held captive by human traffickers west of Bani Walid, Libya, managed to
In the makeshift settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, many Rohingya women give birth in their tents, limiting their medical options in case something goes wrong. MSF’s new maternity ward in Kutupalong, which will be able
Since 14 May 2018, a new cycle of inter-community violence has taken hold in Bambari, a city in the Central African Republic that, in 2017, remained relatively stable while the rest of the country spiralled
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