Brussels, 07 January 2016: Since July 2015, a siege has been imposed by the Syrian government forces around the town of Madaya, near the border with Lebanon in Syria’s Rural Damascus Governorate. Since the single
Five years of war, political instability and lack of medical facilities have left many Syrian wounded people vulnerable to take a long journey from acute surgery to rehabilitation to rebuild their bodies and minds, says
Geneva/New York, January 7, 2015- A malaria drug may have reduced risk of dying among a group of Ebola patients in Liberia during the height of the outbreak in 2014, according to a retrospective study
Early this year Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in conjunction with the Ministry of Health, opened the first comprehensive program dedicated to survivors of sexual violence in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The program
Geneva/New York, January 7, 2015- A malaria drug may have reduced risk of dying among a group of Ebola patients in Liberia during the height of the outbreak in 2014, according to a retrospective study
After eight months at sea, 20,129 people rescued, and over 120 separate search and rescue operations, MSF’s remaining search and rescue ship the Bourbon Argos returned to port for the last time in 2015 on
Barcelona / Gaziantep (Turkey), 23 December 2015: MSF teams have managed to deliver urgently needed aid to thousands of people in the city of Aleppo (Syria) which is going through its fifth winter of civil
Name : Designation : Dr Marwan worked with MSF in Tal Abyad, northern Syria. After refusing a job offer from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, he knew his life was in danger,
In 2005, an innovative strategy consisting of moving the treatment of severe acute malnutrition out of hospitals was expanded massively for the first time, and reached a record number of children.Ten years later, strategies to
During five months in Yemen as MSF’s emergency medical coordinator, Celine Langlois was astonished by people’s ability to get on with daily life amidst airstrikes and a desperate fuel and water crisis. “In the capital,
Name : Designation : (This article first appeared in The Hindu) Dr Bhavna Chawla, a surgeon, recently returned from her first mission with MSF in Lankien, South Sudan. In this letter, she recounts her experience
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