Between February 5 and 22, 2022, cyclones Batsirai and Emnati hit the east coast of Madagascar, destroying numerous healthcare centres. More than 150,000 people have been affected by these cyclones. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams are struggling to reach isolated rural areas where people have very limited access to healthcare and other essential services. It […]
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Bérengère Guais, deputy head of emergency programs in Paris, explains the challenges and difficulties of the association’s deployment in Ukraine.
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Read More… from Ukraine: How MSF is trying to access the areas most affected by fighting
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the brazen armed robbery of one of its medical teams and the burning of two of its vehicles on the road outside of Yei, South Sudan, during the morning of February 28, 2022. Due to this incident, MSF has had to immediately suspend its movements to support […]
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As hundreds of thousands of people are forced to escape, MSF is working on setting up emergency response activities in Ukraine and deploying teams in Poland, Moldova, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.
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MSF’s teams remain in Ukraine, and we are currently seeking ways to adapt our response as the situation evolves.
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Fighting in Ukraine has killed or injured thousands of people, while more than 6.5 million refugees have fled to neighbouring countries. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are working to deliver emergency medical assistance to people still in Ukraine, as well as those now seeking safety in neighbouring countries. The situation is extremely volatile and we have witnessed […]
A recent surge in violence in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province has displaced thousands of people already affected by five years of conflict. Mozambique is one of the countries most at risk of extreme weather events, with an annual tropical storm cycle that leaves people with little time to recover between storms. On top of that, […]
In September 2018, nurse Awa Abou Amadou was working at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paediatric unit in Magaria in southern Niger. It was her most challenging experience as a nurse. “We used to admit around 140 children a day. It wasn’t easy,” she says. Among other nurses and medical personnel, she worked […]
Read More… from Niger: Working with the community to alleviate hospitals
“We don’t have blankets to cover ourselves,” says Aafia, one of thousands internally displaced people sheltering in Yemen’s Marib governorate. “My children have no warm clothes and I don’t have enough food to feed them. I don’t have a house made of bricks; it’s only a tent, which doesn’t even stop the wind during cold […]
Read More… from Yemen: Thousands desperate for help in conflict-hit Marib
On January 26, 2022, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) closed the chapter on one of its largest interventions in response to the health and humanitarian needs of Syrian refugees in Jordan. MSF’s response to the Syrian refugee crises in Jordan started in 2013, by opening an emergency surgical hospital in Ramtha to treat war-wounded patients […]
Read More… from Jordan: MSF ends on one of its largest interventions in the country