South Sudan: 120,000 People Cut Off From Aid

June 18, 2013

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN, JUNE 13, 2013—An estimated 120,000 people have fled fighting in and around the main towns in Pibor County in South Sudan’s Jonglei state and are now hiding in unsafe and malaria-infested swamps without access to safe drinking...

South Sudan: MSF Vaccinates Over 130,000 People Against Meningitis A

June 4, 2013

In May, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with the South Sudanese Ministry of Health, stemmed a meningitis A outbreak and vaccinated over 130,000 people against the disease in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, reinforcing its commitment to...

South Sudan: MSF Hospital Severely Damaged in Intentional Attack

May 16, 2013

BRUSSELS/NEW YORK, May 16, 2013—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today strongly condemned the deliberate damage and looting of its hospital in Pibor town, in South Sudan's Jonglei State, which has left tens of thousands...

By the banks of the Nile – Omar Salim Akhtar

April 1, 2011

I first heard about Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as a child. I was seven and, at that very moment, impressed by the selflessness of the French doctors risking their lives to save the refugees streaming across the Afghan border into...

How an Indian doctor came to work with MSF – Kalyan Velivela, MD

October 1, 2010

MY FIRST MISSION WITH MSF Introduction My name is Kalyan Velivala. Let me tell you a bit about how I came to know about MSF. I had been working in India in the field of Internal medicine and in ICU’s...

MSF Diary (experience from the field) April 2010 – Imtiaz Wadud

April 1, 2010

"I think the surgeries and rehabilitation patients with vesicovaginal fistula was one of the greatest contributions MSF made to the people of Nigeria." I worked at Jahun, a place in Jigawa state in Nigeria on my first assignment with MSF....