News updates

NEWS : 29 September 2009

Philippines: MSF assessing flood-affected areas for potential emergency intervention

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are ready to provide emergency care to people affected by floods after tropical storm Ketsana hit the northern Philippines on Saturday. The storm killed 240 people and displaced 450,000,...[more]

 

NEWS : 28 September 2009

Charging patients in poor countries threatens lives

Mit Philips is health policy analyst for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), based in Brussels. Over the past years, Philips has been studying the effects of asking patients to pay for healthcare they cannot afford. Here, she...[more]

 

NEWS : 25 September 2009

HIV/AIDS: MSF welcomes promising HIV vaccine trial with cautious optimism

An HIV vaccine trial in Thailand involving 16,000 volunteers showed potentially promising results as transmission of the virus was cut by a third. Médecins Sans Frontières welcomes the initiative as it opens up a new chapter in...[more]

 

Central African Republic : 24 September 2009

Interview with Carol Calero, an MSF doctor working on the nutritional emergency in southwestern Central African Republic

The therapeutic feeding centre in Boda opened at the beginning of August and three weeks later, you opened another feeding centre in Nola. What were the first days of the operation like? We were extremely busy in the first few...[more]

 

Central African Republic : 22 September 2009

Nutritional Emergency in southwestern Central African Republic

Economic crisis is the last straw for a vulnerable region[more]

 

Papua New Guinea : 16 September 2009

Papua New Guinea: First cholera outbreak in 50 years continues

For the first time in 50 years, a cholera outbreak is affecting Papua New Guinea. Mainly concentrated in the eastern Morobe province, the disease has so far infected 283 people according to official figures.

Photo : Sally...[more]

 

NEWS : 09 September 2009

Niger: Severe floods, MSF providing aid to displaced families

On Sept. 1, severe floods wreaked havoc in Agadez, Niger following four days of heavy rains in the country’s northern Air Mountains. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are in the city providing emergency assistance to meet the...[more]

 

Papua New Guinea : 04 September 2009

Papua New Guinea: Cholera outbreak

Papua New Guinea's Angau Hospital in Morobe Province is on high alert and treating people affected by an already deadly outbreak of cholera.

As of Sept. 3, 95 cases of cholera were confirmed – including nine deaths – in Wasu,...[more]

 

NEWS : 03 September 2009

2009 August Month in Focus

 

 

Sudan : 02 September 2009

Sudan: Aid after latest attack in Jonglei State

Escalating violence aggravates dire humanitarian situation in southern Sudan

“We are distributing emergency food to the children now – as many of them haven’t eaten for days.”[more]

 

Ethiopia : 02 September 2009

Ethiopia: MSF teams respond to diarrhea outbreak

Since Aug. 19, joint Ethiopian Ministry of Health and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have been providing medical care to patients with acute watery diarrhea in and around the city of Addis Ababa.

In collaboration with...[more]

 

Chad : 02 September 2009

Chad abduction ends after 29 days

A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, who went missing following an armed robbery at the MSF compound in Adé in the east of Chad, has been safely released.The international staff member was set free unharmed following 29...[more]