A Teen Battling XDR-TB in Tajikistan Strives For Better Days

September 15, 2013

Name : MSF doctor Christoph Höhn examines 16-year-old-Shahmosa in her family home. Tajikistan 2013 © Wendy Marijnissen Designation : MSF doctor Christoph Höhn examines 16-year-old-Shahmosa in her family home.Tajikistan 2013 © Wendy Marijnissen a year ago, 16-year-old Shahmosa could do...

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) responds to psychosocial needs in Uttarakhand

September 9, 2013

New Delhi, September 9, 2013: Medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has responded to psychosocial needs of people who suffered from incessant rain, cloudbursts and landslides in Uttarakhand in June 2013. The floods had caused widespread destruction...

MSF surgeon killed in Syria

September 5, 2013

Barcelona, 5 September 2013 – A Syrian surgeon working for the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Dr Muhammad Abyad, has been killed in northern Syria. His body was found on 3 September in Aleppo province. He...

Medicines Shouldn’t be a Luxury

September 3, 2013

Name : Designation : What if the medicines that could save your life cost a hundred times what you earn in a year? Many people in developing countries can’t get hold of the treatment they need to stay alive and...

Afghanistan: “Humanitarian Needs Will Only Grow”

August 30, 2013

Is the security situation deteriorating in Afghanistan? Afghanistan is a country still very much at war. Right now, it is the middle of the annual spring offensive, known as the “fighting season.” The wave of attacks in Kabul in June...

Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF completes sleeping sickness screening for 16,000 people

August 27, 2013

The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has just completed a five month project to combat sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of Congo, during which more than 16,000 people were screened for the disease. The...

Syria: Thousands Suffering Neurotoxic Symptoms Treated in Hospitals Supported by MSF

August 24, 2013

Brussels/New York, August 24, 2013 -- Three hospitals in Syria's Damascus governorate that are supported by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have reported to MSF that they received approximately 3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms...

Egypt: Supporting hospitals and anticipating needs

August 23, 2013

Since the escalation of political violence in Egypt in late June, Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)’s team in Cairo has been in close and regular contact with the main public and private healthcare facilities throughout Cairo and other affected...

India: MSF receives Nagaland governor’s medal for Mon project

August 23, 2013

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was awarded the Nagaland governor's Gold medal during the Independence Day ceremony on August 15, 2013 in recognition of the “distinguished services” rendered by MSF in Mon District Hospital. We have been supporting the...

Bihar State, India: Flood Survivors Tell Their Stories

August 23, 2013

Name : Designation : Displaced people carry their belongings in Araria district, Bihar state © India 2008 Bjorn Nissen /MSF Hundreds of thousands of people remain displaced in northeastern India and neighboring Nepal after the worst flooding in 50 years....

Syria Crisis: MSF provides healthcare to Syrians crossing into Iraqi Kurdistan

August 23, 2013

Syrian refugees are crossing the border into Iraqi Kurdistan in huge numbers, with more than 42,300 passing through the Peshkabour border crossing since it reopened a week ago on 15th August. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have set up...

DRC: MSF begins extraordinary rabies intervention

August 23, 2013

In an extraordinary move, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started a rabies intervention in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo after an alarming number of people were bitten by rabid dogs. With ten deaths reported already,...