By Michael Shek, MSF nurse from Dumfries, Scotland. Worked in MSF’s trauma stabilisation unit in the east of Raqqa in late 2017. One cold January morning, a young Syrian man is rushed into an MSF
Dr Javid Abdelmoneim recently returned from the Syrian city of Raqqa, which was taken by Syrian Democratic Forces and US-supported Coalition forces from the Islamic State group in October 2017. He spent a month working
Amman, Jordan, 22 April 2018 – Ahead of the Brussels conference on Syria, international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges the international community to scale-up healthcare funding for Syrian refugees in
Name : Designation : After providing mental healthcare for inmates in a prison in Harare, Zimbabwe, for over five years, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recently handed over its project to government
It is estimated that 71 million people have chronic hepatitis C infection globally and India accounts for approximately 17 percent of the total number of cases recorded. Once in the body, the hepatitis C virus
MSF has opened a new hospital at the heart of the vast Kutupalong-Balukhali camp, which provides refuge to some 700,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Not hard to find, as the hospital is on one of
Treating kala azar-HIV co-infection in Bihar Kala jwar. Black fever. Dumdum fever. Visceral leishmaniasis. These are the many names by which kala azar is known. The disease spreads through the bite of a sandfly or balu
Officials from the European Union (EU) and India are expected to meet in Brussels on April 12th to resume technical talks on the long-stalled EU-India free trade agreement (FTA). A leaked draft of the agreement,
The vast, desert region of Kidal in northern Mali, south of the Sahara, is home to nomadic populations frequently living far from health facilities. In 2018, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched its first
The story of one of the millions* of children in Syria who have been caught in the middle of a bloody war that they do not understand; one they did not ask for. This graphic
102 patients have received post-operative care in MSF clinics between Sunday and Wednesday, after being shot during the first days of the “March of Return”. MSF is also bolstering its capacity to provide healthcare, fearing
The number of patients injured by landmines, booby traps and explosives doubled between November 2017 and March 2018. Half of the victims were children, some as young as one. This alarming trend comes as more
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