MSF works in shelter with vulnerable victims of disastrous floods in the south of Brazil. A boy named Joaquim runs restlessly among toys spread on the classroom’s floor. There are colorful posters displayed on the walls, but it’s not a class day, and Joaquim is not a student here, either. Desks in this classroom in […]
Read More… from Floods in Brazil: “We have lost everything. But I am very strong.”
On May 29, a bill aimed at designating UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, as a terrorist organization passed a preliminary reading prior to three further readings in Israel’s Parliament, known as the Knesset. A second bill that would lead to the severing of all ties […]
On May 26, Israeli forces killed at least 49 Palestinians in airstrikes on a displaced persons camp in Tal Al-Sultan in Rafah, Gaza. More than 180 injured people were taken to a nearby stabilisation point supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Two days later, Israel bombed a camp for displaced people in Al-Mawasi, […]
Hospitals hit and death toll soars as violent fighting engulfs El Fasher, Sudan, leaving nowhere safe in the city; MSF calls urgently for protection of civilians, health workers and health structures. The intense, non-stop fighting in El Fasher leaves no safe place for civilians in the city as patients and medical staff are increasingly becoming […]
As the United Nations Security Council meets today after Israel struck tent camps sheltering displaced people in designated “humanitarian zones” in southern Gaza, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for an immediate end to the Rafah offensive and the ongoing atrocities across the Gaza Strip. Israel’s military strategy of repeatedly launching attacks in densely […]
Read More… from Gaza: Israel must end its campaign of death and destruction
“The situation is catastrophic. When we arrived and traveled through the region by helicopter, we were able to view the towns from above and noticed that in some cases we couldn´t even see the roofs of houses. There are kilometers and kilometers, and all there is, is water”. The account from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans […]
“We walk for hours to reach the health facilities. Sometimes we use the donkeys to transfer sick people to the hospital or to the clinic,” says Mahmud Mousa Abu Eram, a Palestinian man from Hebron, in the West Bank. “There hasn’t been transportation in this area for a long time, and even if there is […]
Read More… from West Bank: In the shadows of war; Increased violence and restrictions
In the five days since intense fighting began between the RSF, Joint Forces, and SAF on Friday May 10, 454 casualties have arrived at South Hospital in El Fasher. 56 people have succumbed to their injuries, but the wounded and death toll are likely far higher since the fighting continues to be so intense that […]
Read More… from Sudan: Children in a critical condition need an immediate solution
The intensification of the onslaught by the Israeli forces in Rafah, Gaza, has forced Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to stop providing lifesaving care at Rafah Indonesian Field hospital on May 12. The 22 patients who remained in the hospital have been referred to other facilities, as we can no longer guarantee their safety. […]
At the fifth WHO Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies conference today, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) presented the costs of its landmark TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial that helped identify a shorter, all-oral treatment regimen for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), * which totalled €34 million. * This is the first time the detailed costs of an individual […]