News updates
Month in focus - October 2010
Haiti: An extraordinary patientGaza: MSF opens a new surgical programStarved for Attention: 95 million stories Patent Pool – first medical patent rights offered[more]
Continuing cholera treatment in Petite Rivière
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is treating more than 100 new patients with cholera-like symptoms every day in Petite Rivière, a city in the Artibonite River region north of Port-au-Prince. An MSF team arrived last week at a...[more]
Demonstration disrupts cholera response
Cholera is a very treatable disease – treatment centres are key to the response and don’t pose a risk to the population[more]
900 treated in 2 days in cholera outbreak
Less patients arriving but teams still prepared[more]
MSF treating cholera patients
Assessment teams sent to Mirebalais and Petite Rivière[more]
MSF intervening in cholera-affected area
Following the outbreak of acute diarrhea in the Artibonite region of Haiti, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams – including doctors, nurses, and logisticians – immediately travelled to the affected areas along the...[more]
Safe water and shelter needs remain
Critical aid continues for many as emergency response ends in some areas[more]
World Food Day: Fighting global childhood malnutrition
Top donor countries must end double standard of supplying nutritionally substandard foods to young children in malnutrition hotspots[more]
World Food Day: Open letter urging Canada to reform quality of food aid
To the Honourable Bev Oda, Minister of International Cooperation: We are writing this open letter on the eve of World Food Day 2010 to urge Canada to end the double standard of financing nutritionally substandard food for...[more]
Nigeria: Coordination critical to prevent more lead poisoning deaths
Earlier this year, cases of lead poisoning in children and adults were confirmed in five villages in Zamfara state, northwestern Nigeria. Investigations conducted in April and May by Nigerian authorities and Médecins Sans...[more]
PHOTOS: Distributing aid in Pakistan
Flooding in Pakistan from July to September of this year directly affected millions of people and caused widespread destruction to houses and infrastructure. Photographer Seb Geo documented MSF’s activities in September, showing...
Mental health care, a core part of MSF's emergency aid
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides emergency medical aid in catastrophes all over the world — armed conflicts, natural disasters, famines and epidemics.[more]
Nigeria: Lead poisoning continues to affect hundreds of children in northwestern Nigeria
Earlier this year, cases of lead poisoning in children and adults were confirmed in five villages in Zamfara state, northwestern Nigeria. Since early June, Médecins Sans Frontières, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health...[more]
Kashmir: MSF resumes some of its activities
MSF has been able to resume some of its activities in Jammu & Kashmir after round-the-clock curfews and increasing violence led it to temporarily halt its mental health services on 12 September. [more]
Chad: Hunger, floods and cholera / People facing threefold emergency
A long drought in Chad, followed by torrential rains, has destroyed crops, flooded wells and cut off villages. Weakened by malnutrition and without access to clean water, people are particularly vulnerable to outbreaks of cholera...[more]
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