MSF office and pharmacy in Rakhine state destroyed in fire amid ongoing violence

April 16, 2024

BUTHIDAUNG – Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply alarmed that our office and pharmacy in Buthidaung, Rakhine state, Myanmar, burnt down on 15 April. The burning down of MSF’s office and pharmacy is just the latest blow to what is a decimation...

Myanmar: I have defeated TB and I wish the same for other patients

April 8, 2024

Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis is one of the most complex types of tuberculosis you can get. As opposed to drug-sensitive, which responds well to the medication, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, by its very name, is resistant to some of the drugs used...

Cyclone Mocha: aid efforts severely hampered by new restrictions

July 27, 2023

About 85 per cent of my camp is in ruins after Cyclone Mocha wreaked havoc here. All hut-like houses are destroyed. People who live in houses like these are in dire need of emergency aid since they have no place...

After 10 years in camps in Myanmar, Rohingya mental health continues to suffer

July 18, 2022

In 2012, when violence erupted between Rohingya and Rakhine communities, Zaw Rina’s home in Pauktaw town was burned down. She was forced to flee with her family to a camp in Ah Nauk Ywe on a difficult-to-reach island in the...

Myanmar: Seeking new ways to tackle urgent health threat of drug-resistant TB

August 20, 2013

Country’s first international symposium to tackle DR-TB crisis begins 22 August An urgent health threat in Myanmar is drawing together leading experts to explore new ways to tackle the drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) crisis. Forms of TB that cannot be...

Myanmar: Restrictions Severely Impacting Access to Health Care

May 30, 2013

YANGON, MYANMAR/NEW YORK, MAY 28, 2013—Nearly a year after interethnic clashes broke out in Myanmar's Rakhine State, government-imposed restrictions on Muslim communities are preventing tens of thousands of people from accessing health care and other basic services, the international medical...