Annie Thibault recently returned from working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Gaza for four weeks. Her role as administration manager included human resources and finance as well as advocacy. She was based in Rafah and visited health facilities in southern Gaza. Annie is from Saint-Sauveur, Quebec. “Is it as bad as they […]
Ahead of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) protested alongside other global health activists outside the headquarters of US corporation Danaher, which owns diagnostics maker Cepheid, demanding they drop the price to US$5 for all their ‘GeneXpert’ medical tests that they sell in low- and middle-income countries, for diseases such as […]
As Israeli Forces announced on March 18 that they were conducting a military operation inside and around Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff sheltering close by said heavy fighting was taking place. One of our staff members said he heard drones, tanks and shelling near the hospital […]
Read More… from Gaza: MSF witnesses heavy fighting around Al-Shifa Hospital
As the world marks ten years since the deadliest Ebola virus disease outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is disappointed that while two approved Ebola treatments now exist, they are not readily available via an emergency stockpile for use in places where they would likely […]
Hepatitis E is spreading through refugee camps in eastern Chad where more than 550,000 Sudanese fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Sudan have taken shelter, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. The spread of hepatitis E is being exacerbated by poor sanitation and a desperate shortage of clean water in the camps, which are […]
Over the past two years, more than one million women, men and children have fled the ongoing fighting in the DRC’s North Kivu province. More than half of them have sought refuge near the provincial capital of Goma, with many living in inhumane conditions on improvised sites where everything is lacking: decent shelter, water, food, […]
Read More… from Women on the move: mothers’ stories from Kanyaruchinya, North Kivu
In an escalation of violence in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, armed men attacked the town of Drodro on the night of 6 to 7 March, killing a patient in her bed ransacking the general hospital, and looting medical equipment, says international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), whose teams work in […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been ordered by Panamanian authorities to stop all medical activities for people on the move through the Darién Gap, on the border between Panama and Colombia. Since receiving the order on Monday 4 March, MSF has suspended our activities. The Panamanian authorities allege that MSF does not currently […]
Read More… from Darien Gap, Panama: MSF forced to suspend medical care for migrants
The first survey in more than a decade to examine the impact of violence on mortality in Haiti reveals the extreme levels of violence experienced by residents of Cité Soleil, the largest slum in the capital, Port-au-Prince. The retrospective mortality survey was carried out by Epicentre, the epidemiology and medical research arm of Doctors Without […]
Read More… from Port-au-Prince, Haiti: New survey reveals extreme levels of violence
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is scaling up its medical activities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to care for the mounting number of people injured in the chaos that has engulfed the Haitian capital since the Feb. 28 announcement that general elections may be postponed as late as August 2025. The violence has taken on a […]