Ukraine: War in Ukraine has displaced me twice and I’m on the road again
March 16, 2022Aleksandr Burmin* is an MSF staff member in Ukraine. Here he recounts how war in Ukraine has displaced him for the second time in less than 10 years.As dawn broke on 24 February in Kyiv, Ukraine, I woke to the sound of explosions...
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Ukraine: Every day thousands of Ukrainians arrive in Slovakia – traumatised and exhausted
March 15, 2022More than 195,000 refugees have crossed into Slovakia since the war started in Ukraine on 24 February, according to the UN*. Our project coordinator, Marta Wnorowska, is currently on the Slovakian-Ukrainian border and describes the situation on the ground. How is the situation in the...
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Ukraine: Thousands of people flee bombings in south Ukraine and head west
March 12, 2022Thousands of Ukrainians are arriving at the Palanca border crossing in Moldova every day to escape the fighting in the south of Ukraine. Since the war began, more than 230,000 refugees (as of March 8) have arrived in Moldova. However, less than half of...
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Ukraine: “There’s an urgent humanitarian race against time in Ukraine”
March 11, 2022Anja Wolz, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Emergency Coordinator currently based in Lviv, Ukraine, explains the urgency of this stage of the humanitarian response to the war in the country. Here in Lviv, I am getting multiple calls from hospitals...
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Ukraine: In Odessa, “everyone is preparing for the worst”
March 8, 2022Carla Melki, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has just returned from the port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine, where she was part of an MSF team assessing the current situation. Our teams there have been...
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Ukraine: Emergency medical supplies rushed to Kyiv by train from Ukraine warehouse
March 6, 2022Around 6 pm local time, Saturday 5 March, one of Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) emergency response teams in Ukraine met Oleksandr Kamyshin, Chairman of the Board of Ukrainian Railways. MSF’s first international supplies had arrived in Ukraine, and had been...
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Ukraine: Civilians must be allowed safe passage out of dire conditions in Mariupol
March 5, 2022The city of Mariupol is among the areas now heavily affected by the war in Ukraine. Multiple staff members of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are sheltering in the city with their families. One staff member gave the following account today: “The...
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Ukraine: Corridors are not enough for civilians and humanitarian aid in Ukraine
March 5, 2022Following the soul-wrenching reports we received from trapped Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff in Mariupol, Ukraine, we are closely following the ongoing reports about an agreement for the safe passage of civilians this weekend. It is vital that such opportunities for civilians...
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Ukraine: How MSF is trying to access areas most affected by fighting
March 4, 2022While the number of deaths and injuries rises in Ukraine and hundreds of thousands of people seek refuge in neighbouring countries, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is working to get staff and equipment into areas most affected by the Russian...
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Ukraine: Fighting tuberculosis with medication, mental health and social support
September 21, 2021In Zhytomyr, Ukraine, our teams works with the Regional TB Dispensary to treat patients who have drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (DR-TB). They are treated with a short course of DR-TB medication and the possibility of being treated at home most of the...
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Ukraine: Effective drugs and patient support to combat Ukraine’s hepatitis C epidemic
July 27, 2019A combination of generic drugs coupled with a comprehensive patient support model has shown promising results in a pilot project run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Ukraine. When scaled up, it can substantially accelerate hepatitis C treatment in a country...
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