Haiti: MSF trauma hospital in Port-au-Prince nears its limits
May 6, 2025Port-au-Prince, May 5, 2025 - Port-au-Prince is undergoing an extremely high level of violence as armed groups are coordinating attacks on several areas of the city that were previously beyond their control. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is warning that its...
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Haiti: MSF withdraws from two medical facilities in Port-au-Prince as widespread violence intensifies
April 9, 2025Port-au-Prince, 8 April, 2025 - Following the targeted attack on 15 March against a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) convoy travelling between its Turgeau emergency centre and its Carrefour Trauma Hospital, and in view of the deteriorating security situation in downtown...
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Haiti: MSF Vehicles shot during hospital evacuation amid escalating violence in Port-au-Prince
March 18, 2025Port au Prince, Haiti- Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the intentional opening of fire upon four of its vehicles while they were seeking safety for their staff amid escalating violence in Port au Prince, Haiti. The...
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Haiti: Escalating Violence and Worsening Health Needs
March 7, 2025Port-au-Prince, Haiti- Since 24 February, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Haiti have witnessed a surge in violence, increasing the number of wounded people and medical needs. Clashes between armed groups and police are intensifying, leaving civilians trapped under...
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Haiti: A call to support survivors of sexual violence
January 14, 2025Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Haiti's capital urgently need vital services such as safe shelters, mental health support and medical care, as rapes and other assaults have become widespread during violence and insecurity in the city in recent...
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Haiti: Violence and threats by police force MSF to suspend activities in Port-au-Prince metropolitan area
November 20, 2024Port-au-Prince – A series of threats by police forces against Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff have forced the organization to suspend its activities until further notice in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. Police officers have stopped MSF vehicles multiple times...
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Haiti: MSF outraged by attack on its ambulance by law enforcement and execution of patients
November 13, 2024Port-au-Prince, November 12, 2024 — Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest terms the killing of at least two patients who were executed after an MSF ambulance was stopped by members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers....
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Haiti: MSF denounces obstruction of ambulance causing patient’s death
September 6, 2024On Tuesday, September 3, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance carrying a patient in critical condition was stopped by police in Port-au-Prince and detained, preventing our team from providing the necessary care. The patient was suffering from an open fracture...
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Closed Ports, Empty Shelves: Haiti Urgently Needs Medical Supplies
May 22, 2024Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 21st May, 2024 – Since the end of February, Port-au-Prince has been engulfed in unprecedented violence, cutting off the Haitian capital from the outside world following the closure of the airport and ports. The escalating insecurity has severely...
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Haiti: Healthcare Navigates New Heights of Conflict in Port-au-Prince
May 6, 2024The violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has seen a new and dramatic increase since 28 February 2024, with armed groups attacking new parts of the city. This surge in conflict, occurring frequently in residential zones, has deeply affected the community and...
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Haiti: How violence is affecting health and health care workers
April 12, 2024Dr Priscille Cupidon, medical activity manager of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urban violence project in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, explains how the chronic extreme violence gripping the city has impacted medical care and healthcare workers like her. I...
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Haiti: New survey reveals extreme levels of violence in Port-au-Prince
March 7, 2024A survey conducted by MSF’s Epicentre shows an abnormally high mortality rate, with more than 40 percent of all deaths caused by violence.PORT-AU-PRINCE/PARIS – The first survey in more than a decade to examine the impact of violence on mortality in Haiti reveals...
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