News updates

India : 27 October 2008

India: Treating and preventing diseases linked to the floods

After major floods, health problems like diarrhea, respiratory infections and skin problems are common. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams provide primary healthcare and distribute basic items to limit people’s exposure to...[more]

 

NEWS : 27 October 2008

Sudan threatens to suspend MSF activities in South Darfur

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely concerned about recent comments made by Sudanese government representatives that the aid organization’s activities in South Darfur may be suspended after Oct. 31.

In February 2008,...[more]

 

Haiti : 23 October 2008

Haiti: the forgotten people of Praville

Praville is one of those small hamlets in Gonaïves, in the north of the country, partially located on a raised piece of land and, therefore, partly protected against the torrents of mud which ravaged the fourth largest city in...[more]

 

Ethiopia : 17 October 2008

Ethiopia : People living in precarious balance

Since mid-May, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been responding to an acute nutritional crisis in southern Ethiopia. Even though the teams were recently able to reduce the activities, recent assessments have led MSF to launch...[more]

 

Russian Federation : 15 October 2008

Earthquakes in Chechnya

In the afternoon of October 11th 2008, the North Caucasus was hit by an earthquake. According to local authorities it was the most destructive in the last 30 years in the region. The epicenter of the earthquake, and most...[more]

 

Haiti : 14 October 2008

Homelessness and food shortages for hurricane victims in Haiti

Médecins Sans Frontières denounces the inefficiency of emergency response in Gonaïves[more]

 

Democratic Republic of Congo : 09 October 2008

DRC: MSF assists those displaced by LRA terrorism

Photo : Photo: Espen Rasmussen, MSF.

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has again perpetrated intense aggression against populations in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by kidnapping 90 children in...[more]

 

Papua New Guinea : 09 October 2008

Update: Papua-New Guinea project

Papua New Guinea: struggling with the modern world

The eastern part of the island of New Guinea which forms the small nation of Papua New Guinea (the island is shared with an Indonesian province) has only been independent from...[more]

 

Colombia : 09 October 2008

Comprehensive healthcare needed for victims of sexual violence in Colombia

The rate of sexual violence in Colombia is alarming. A recent study carried out by the international humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reveals that 35% of their mobile clinic patients and 22% of patients in...[more]

 

Democratic Republic of Congo : 06 October 2008

Fact Sheet: MSF activities in North Kivu, DRC

MSF provides primary and secondary healthcare in North Kivu in and around Rutshuru, Masisi, and Lubero districts. MSF supports hospitals in Rutshuru, Mweso, Masisi and Kitchanga as well as surrounding health centres, and runs a...[more]

 

Democratic Republic of Congo : 06 October 2008

War resumes in North Kivu, DRC

International community failing to protect the population[more]

 

Haiti : 03 October 2008

Haiti: MSF finds people still stranded in flooded village

A month after the last tropical storms and hurricanes hit Haiti, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams have found an entire village completely submerged and its 2400 remaining inhabitants stranded without help.

Photo :...[more]

 

Papua New Guinea : 03 October 2008

Interview: Karen Stewart, mental health officer in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has some of the worst health statistics in the Pacific region and also has one of the world’s highest rates of sexual violence. About two percent of adults have HIV, and in some communities the rate of...[more]

 

Somalia : 02 October 2008

Somalia: MSF sees surge in wounded and displaced as violence increases in Mogadishu

The recent escalation in fighting in one of Mogadishu’s most populated residential areas has resulted in a surge in the number of wounded and has, once again, displaced thousands of people. MSF is treating the wounded and is...[more]