Kabul, February 25, 2014 – After more than a decade of international aid and investment, access to basic and emergency medical care in Afghanistan remains severely limited and sorely ill-adapted to meet growing needs created by
Juba / Amsterdam / Barcelona / New York, 26 February 2014 — As entire towns in South Sudan suffer devastating attacks, medical care has also come under fire, with patients shot in their beds, wards
MSF launched a measles vaccination campaign on 8 February in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, following the January 14 official declaration of an epidemic. MSF plans to vaccinate close to 500,000 children between the ages
As violence continues to spread throughout the northwest of Central African Republic (CAR), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have opened a new project in Bouar, a town which has been severely impacted by the conflict
Since June 2012, MSF has been treating prisoners and ex prisoners with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. Paola Mermati, MSF’s Field Coordinator in Donetsk, talks about the challenges of treating such
Since February 1, nearly 1,000 people, most of them Muslim, have been trapped, surrounded, and threatened by armed militias known as anti-balakas in Carnot, southwestern Central African Republic (CAR). Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Name : Designation : As a logistician with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for seven years now, Amul Rathi has been making sure that its programmes are equipped well to run smoothly. He’s worked
Since early December 2013, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided medical care to more than 1,000 patients wounded by violence in and around Central African Republic (CAR)’s Bangui airport, where approximately 100,000 displaced
Three months after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, affecting 16 million people, emergency teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) report that although the relief effort is well underway, the recovery will take a
Following several episodes of fatal inter-communal violence in the Central African Republic capital of Bangui last week, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams treated more than 200 people at Community Hospital and at
By: Arjan Hehenkamp, MSF General Director When I left South Sudan ten years ago, having worked here for four, I left feeling hopeful. A ceasefire had been signed and a peace-agreement was under discussion. A
Over the past seven weeks, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team has run mobile clinics by boat to deliver medical and humanitarian aid to five islands south of Guiuan that were affected by
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