News updates

Pakistan: More than 400,000 people affected by severe floods

30 July 2010

Recent heavy rainfall in Pakistan’s northwestern region has directly affected 400,000 people and caused widespread destruction to houses and infrastructure. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is currently assessing the situation in...

Sudan: MSF forced to suspend medical aid in health centre

30 July 2010

Aid workers call for respect of medical activities and facilities

Other MSF medical activities on Jonglei State and Sudan continue

Month in focus - July 2010

26 July 2010

In the "Month in Focus - July 2010" edition: Haiti - Six months on; Malnutrition - hundreds of thousands of children under threat; Kyrgyzstan - tension remains high

Southern Sudan: Ringing the alarm bell and saving children’s lives

23 July 2010

Stephen Flanagan is a nurse working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in southern Sudan, an area where MSF is seeing worrying levels of malnutrition in children. As part of his job, Stephen assesses children and helps them get...

Southern Sudan: MSF expands activities as nutritional situation worsens

23 July 2010

In the last few months, a combination of bad harvests and growing insecurity has resulted in a huge increase in the rates of malnutrition in southern Sudan. Médecins Sans Frontières emergency teams are responding to the crisis,...

Kyrgyzstan: Tension and violence continue in the south

20 July 2010

MSF calls for impartial access to healthcare

HIV/AIDS: Donors gambling with patients’ lives by retreating from funding

19 July 2010

Short-sighted savings measures ignore latest science, will cost more lives

HIV/AIDS: The stories and trends behind the science

16 July 2010

Special Report

Pakistan: Bomb blast in Swat district leaves 5 dead and 58 wounded

16 July 2010

Following an explosion at midday Thursday in Mingora, the main city of Swat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan, medical staff from the emergency organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Pakistan’s Ministry...

Haiti: MSF distributes tents after storm destroys shelters in camp

15 July 2010

On Monday afternoon a storm hit a camp in Coraille, north of Port au Prince, where more than 7,000 people are living, destroying almost one third of the tents. More than 2,300 people lost their only form of shelter and were under...

Haiti: Key data on earthquake emergency relief published by MSF

08 July 2010

Living conditions remain dire for thousands of Haitians

Somalia: 23 women, children injured by shelling in Mogadishu

04 July 2010

War Wounded Admitted To Daynile Hospital, Treated by MSF