According to the latest estimates, the earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria have killed more than 21,000 people and injured tens of thousands more. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works with affected populations in northwestern Syria with nearly 500 staff members. At the time of the disaster, MSF was already there, supporting local communities […]
Information about MSF’s response, below, is correct as of Feb. 8, 2023. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are providing and supporting medical care and relief assistance for thousands of injured people after the devestating earthquakes that hit Syria and Türkiye on Feb. 6. Our teams have supported care for 3,465 injured people in […]
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest terms the murder of two of its employees in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, in northwestern Burkina Faso. The organisation is suspending its medical activities in the Boucle du Mouhoun region. On the morning of Wednesday February 8, an MSF vehicle, clearly identified as […]
Cervical cancer accounts for 37 percent of new cancers in women in Malawi. Since 2018, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer and bring down deaths from the disease in the districts of Blantyre and Chiradzulu. MSF Project Director Marion Péchayre explains how. Why did MSF […]
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Powerful earthquakes hit the south of Türkiye and northwest Syria on Feb. 6. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, already present providing humanitarian assistance in northwest Syria, are together with local partners responding to people’s urgent needs in the area since the quakes. Many of our staff have been impacted themselves, whether directly or […]
Latest update on the earthquakes Following the powerful earthquakes that hit the south of Türkiye and northwest Syria on February 6th, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), already supporting the population of northwest Syria, has mobilized its team along with local partners to respond to the increasing needs in the area. So far, the United […]
In Matamoros, a city on Mexico’s northern border, about 2,500 migrants are living in a new makeshift camp in deplorable conditions, hoping to seek safety in the US. Esteban Montaño Vásquez, MSF field communications manager for Mexico and Central America visited the camp last week. Here he talks about the people he met and […]
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This year, and for the first time, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières is participating in Ottawa’s iconic Winterlude Festival. From Feb. 3 to 20, MSF welcomes everyone to visit our over three-metre-tall ice sculpture located at the corner of O’Connor and Sparks Street. Entitled “Finding Home Again,” the sculpture of mother and […]
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The little-known but life-threatening disease noma is one step closer towards being recognised as a neglected tropical disease (NTD) after international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported Nigeria’s request to the World Health Organization (WHO) to add it to its list of NTDs. After a three-year international advocacy and communication campaign, a […]
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An alarming situation is unfolding in southeast Madagascar, where malnutrition is on the rise in rural communities. People in the southeastern Ikongo district face acute food shortages after harvests were destroyed in last year’s cyclones. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis of January 2023 shows that more than a quarter of the […]
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