Providing Psychological Care in Syria: “Flashbacks, Nightmares, and Baby Clothes”
May 2, 2013Psychologist Audrey Magis recently returned home after spending two months working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Syria, where she set up and ran a mental health program in one of MSF’s projects in the north of the...
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DRC: Thousands Flee Violence In Pinga, North Kivu
May 1, 2013GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO/NEW YORK, MAY 2, 2013—Thousands of people have fled the town of Pinga in recent days amid a new wave of armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s North Kivu Province, making it very...
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Yemen: Migrants Abused, Tortured by Smugglers
April 30, 2013SANA’A, YEMEN/NEW YORK, MAY 1, 2013—Authorities in Yemen have freed more than one thousand migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia, many suffering from torture and sexual abuse while forcibly held by human smugglers, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins...
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Increased Mental Health Care Needed In Iraq
April 29, 2013BAGHDAD/NEW YORK, APRIL 30, 2013—The Iraqi Ministry of Health and its supporters should improve access to mental health care services for a population still reeling from decades of conflict, political instability, and social upheaval, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors...
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Niger: Impending Threat Of Deadly Malaria And Malnutrition Combination
April 24, 2013Madrid, 24 April 2013 – The number of severely malnourished children expected to be treated in the Sahel region in 2013 amounts to 1.4 million; 1 out of 5 children in Niger. The international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
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DRC: Urgent Action Needed To Prevent Malaria Deaths In Orientale Province
April 24, 2013APRIL 25, 2013—An upsurge in malaria is likely to have serious consequences for people in Orientale Province in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) unless immediate action is taken, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned...
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Against All Odds: Maternity Care in Rural North Darfur
April 16, 2013April 16, 2013 After two days of prolonged labor, Sameera delivered a healthy baby boy. Fifteen-year old Sameera [patient’s name changed] had already been in labor for two days when her family decided to leave the valleys and farming plots...
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MSF Urges Indian Prime Minister To Resist European Pressure To Trade Away Health
April 13, 2013As clock ticks towards agreement, MSF warns EU-India free trade deal will harm access to medicines. The negotiations between the European Union (EU) and India on a free trade and investment agreement have now reached an intense phase, with regular...
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As Refugee Population in Iraq Swells, MSF Scales Up Emergency Response
April 12, 2013April 12, 2013 A Syrian refugee carries her child to the MSF medical clinic at the Domeez camp in northwest Iraqi Kurdistan. The number of Syrians registering as refugees at the Domeez camp, near the city of Dohuk in the...
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Hunger Strikes Malian Refugees Stranded In Mauritanian Desert
April 12, 2013NOUAKCHOTT, MAURITANIA/NEW YORK, APRIL 12, 2013—Conflict in Mali has driven nearly 70,000 refugees to Mbera camp in the Mauritanian desert, where appalling conditions and inadequate assistance are leading to severe malnutrition and deaths from preventable diseases, the international medical humanitarian...
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As Clock Ticks Towards Agreement, EU-India Free Trade Deal Puts Millions Of Lives At Risk
April 9, 2013Brussels, 9 April, 2013 - As European Commission (EC) pressure mounts on India to rush into signing a free trade agreement (FTA) by mid-April, activists from across Europe mobilised in Brussels today to demand the EC withdraw provisions that will...
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On a mountainous road in Yemen – Ahmed Mandal
April 1, 2013Name : Designation : Ahmed Mandal has worked with MSF’s medical team in Yemen as a general practitioner and intensivist. He tells us what is involved in running a busy emergency room in a mountainous region of the country. Medical...
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