Haiti: MSF vehicles shot during hospital evacuation amid escalating violence in Port-au-Prince

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemn the intentional opening of fire on four clearly marked MSF vehicles while we were seeking safety for staff amid escalating violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  Violence close to the Turgeau emergency centre has forced MSF to suspend again activities in the hospital on March 15 and evacuate our […]

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Haiti: Escalating violence, worsening health needs in Port-au-Prince

Since Feb. 24, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Haiti have witnessed a surge in violence, resulting in an increasing number of wounded people and medical needs. Clashes between armed groups and police are intensifying, leaving civilians trapped under constant threat of crossfire. Today, 85 per cent of Port-au-Prince is under the control of […]

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Haiti: Women trapped between violence and poverty in Port-au-Prince

Géralda, Alcélia, and Cherlyne, three Haitian women, share their struggle to survive in Brooklyn, an isolated part of Cité Soleil neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are the only ones providing free medical care in the area on a daily basis.  Cité Soleil : Life under constant threat of crossfire  Géralda describes […]

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Haiti: A call to support survivors of sexual violence

Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Haiti’s capital urgently need vital services such as safe shelters, mental health support and medical care, as rapes and other assaults have become widespread during violence and insecurity in the city in recent years.   Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided comprehensive medical and psychological care to […]

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2024: A year in review

2024 saw Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams responding to various emergencies spanning the globe. Abyei: area between Sudan and South Sudan The 38-kilometer trip from Agok to Abyei takes over 6 hours due to poor roads. MSF uses a tractor to navigate mud bogs. The road conditions prevent water and sanitation trucks from […]

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Shut up and provide aid: why weaponizing neutrality against humanitarian organizations must not silence us

“The most important thing you can do is let the world know what is happening here.” This recent plea from Dr. Abu Baker, a hospital director in the West Bank, is a familiar one for our teams at Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The simple request – to share the grave realities we […]

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Haiti: MSF Partially Resumes Medical Activities in Port-au-Prince

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is partially resuming its medical activities in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area after a 22-day suspension due to repeated threats and violence against its staff and patients. The decision to suspend MSF’s activities, even temporarily, was extremely difficult because the city is heavily affected by violence, and the medical needs […]

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Haiti: Violence and threats by police force MSF to suspend activities in Port-au-Prince metropolitan area 

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, June 21, 2022. This ambulance prepares to transport a patient with a head injury to another health facility.

A series of threats by police forces against Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff have forced the organization to suspend its activities until further notice in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. Police officers have stopped MSF vehicles multiple times and directly threatened MSF staff members, including death and rape threats, in the week following […]

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Haiti: MSF outraged by attack on its ambulance by law enforcement and execution of patients

Two MSF ambulances parked under a tree shade at the MSF Emergency Center of Turgeau.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest terms the killing of at least two patients who were executed after an MSF ambulance was stopped by members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers. On November 11, an MSF ambulance transporting three young people with gunshot wounds was stopped by Haitian police […]

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Haiti: MSF denounces obstruction of ambulance

Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, June 21, 2022. This ambulance prepares to transport a patient with a head injury to another health facility.

On Tuesday, September 3, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance carrying a patient in critical condition was stopped by police in Port-au-Prince and detained, preventing our team from providing the necessary care. The patient was suffering from an open fracture and in urgent need of hospital care. Held for more than an hour, […]

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