A Canadian doctor on-the-ground reflects on how the patients were selected for MSF’s first medical train referral in Ukraine.
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Category: News & Stories
The human cost of Title 42: Stories from the US-Mexico border
For two years, under a policy known as Title 42, the United States government has used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to close its southern border to asylum seekers. This devastating policy has exposed highly vulnerable people to more violence and danger. Title 42, invoked by the Trump administration in March 2020 and repeatedly […]
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The climate emergency: MSF commits to reduce carbon emissions to help safeguard the health of the most vulnerable
The climate emergency is a threat to the future of our planet and the health and well-being of people around the world.
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DRC: Insecurity and impunity force MSF to halt work in Nizi and Bambu
Four months after a convoy of vehicles belonging to international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) came under fire by unidentified armed men in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MSF has announced that it will close its projects in Nizi and Bambu due to a lack of security guarantees from all […]
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Bangladesh: Unprecedented increase of scabies cases in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps
The number of people attending Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s services in Cox’s Bazar with scabies is the highest we have seen in three years. Cases of skin diseases in 2021 were more than double those of 2019, with 73,000 people treated, and infections are continuing to climb in 2022. Almost 90 percent of […]
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Afghanistan: Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children
Zainab didn’t sleep well last night. The lights and the incessant beeping of the machines in the intensive care unit would keep anyone awake. But mainly she couldn’t sleep because she was worried about her one-year-old son, Takberullah. He also had a restless, irritable night as he was having trouble breathing until the doctor gave […]
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MSF response to investigation into the killings of colleagues in Tigray, Ethiopia
Paula Gil, President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Spain: “Today, March 17, 2022, The New York Times published an investigation into the killings of our colleagues María Hernández, Tedros Gebremariam, and Yohannes Halefom in Tigray, Ethiopia, on June 24, 2021. The story places responsibility for the killings on the Ethiopian National Defense Force […]
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One couple’s story, from fleeing violence in DRC to giving birth in the Panamanian rainforest
Mimi and Paty were married in their home region of Maniema, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Now 42, Paty is an electromechanical engineer and video cameraman, while Mimi, 35, is a professor of Islamic theology who did her studies in Iran. After living through years of ethnic violence in Maniema, they finally made […]
MSF helps major hospital in Kyiv prepare for potential increase in casualties
On March 14-15, 2022, an MSF a surgical team provided mass casualty influx training and advice for the staff in Kyiv.
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Poland: Huge challenges due to war in Ukraine
Felipe Van Braak is one of the medical team leaders in MSF’s emergency team working in Poland and at Poland’s border with Ukraine.
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