Mozambique: Treating HIV In The Cyclone-Devastated City of Beira

When Cyclone Idai struck the port city of Beira in Mozambique on 15 March, it damaged or destroyed buildings and infrastructure and ripped the roofs off most health centres,… Read more »

Mozambique: Update On MSF Emergency Response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth - Mozambique

In early March, a storm cell brought heavy rains to Malawi before heading out to sea off the coast of Mozambique and intensifying into Cyclone Idai. In the early hours of the… Read more »

Central African Republic: MSF Reaches Town Cut Off By Violence in Central African Republic

Over the last six years, Central African Republic (CAR) has endured peaks of intense violence that have weakened an already precarious health system and deprived people of access… Read more »

Libya: More Than Medicine: a Look At Mental Health Needs in Detention

Below the gloomy sky of Tripoli's Janzour neighbourhood, a woman steps out onto the terrace of her fifth-floor apartment and carefully hangs a damp collection of colourful laundry… Read more »

Chad: 'The Measles Epidemic Declared in May 2018 Is Still Not Under Control'

MSF steps up its measles vaccination and medical response as year-long outbreak increases in intensity Read more »

Mozambique: Treating HIV in the Cyclone-Devastated City of Beira - Mozambique

When Cyclone Idai struck the port city of Beira in Mozambique on 15 March, it damaged or destroyed buildings and infrastructure and ripped the roofs off most health centres,… Read more »

Libya: Ongoing Fighting Endangers Detained Migrants and Refugees

Since fighting erupted in Tripoli, Libya, on April 4, 2019, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for the urgent evacuation of detained… Read more »

Chad: Measles Epidemic Declared in May 2018 Still Not Under Control

Parts of Chad, including the capital, N'Djamena, and the city of Am Timan, are in the throes of a measles outbreak that has lasted for a year and is rising in intensity. Read more »

Central African Republic: Vaccination Campaign Launched in Previously Inaccessible Mingala

After more than two years without humanitarian access to Mingala, MSF has finished a two-day vaccination programme in the town. Located about 100 kilometres from Alindao, in… Read more »

Malawi: The Sex Workers On the Frontlines of the HIV Response in Malawi

An MSF programme in four districts in southern Malawi is helping thousands of women who earn their living from sex work to overcome barriers to health services, in part by training… Read more »

Mozambique: The Recovery From Cyclone Idai Continues, but Health Needs Remain

"Soon after heavy rain and flooding destroyed much of Beira, we identified Dondo district, in Mozambique's Sofala province, as one of the areas most affected by the flooding. In… Read more »

Mozambique: Natural Disasters - MSF Responds As Cyclone Kenneth Hits Mozambique

Just over a month after Cyclone Idai devastated central Mozambique, Cyclone Kenneth hit the coast of Cabo Delgado province, in the country's north, on Thursday evening 25 April. Read more »

Mozambique: MSF Responds to Cyclone Kenneth

Less than two months after Cyclone Idai hit eastern Mozambique, Cyclone Kenneth hit the country's northern coast of Cabo Delgado province last Thursday evening, April 25. Several… Read more »

Libya: Brutal Shooting of Detainees Shows Need for Immediate Evacuation of Migrants and Refugees

Refugees and migrants in Tripoli's Qasr Bin Gashir detention center were shot and injured during a violent incident this week, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without… Read more »

Africa: MSF - Johnson & Johnson Should Make TB Drug Available for All At $1/Day

MSF protests at J&J's annual shareholders meeting to demand a say in how lifesaving tuberculosis drug developed with considerable joint efforts, including public funding and… Read more »

Ethiopia: MSF Launches Intervention As Displacement Crisis Leads to High Malnutrition Rates

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a medical intervention in the Gedeo area of southern Ethiopia following a nutritional assessment… Read more »

Ethiopia: Alarming Rates of Malnutrition Among Displaced People in Southern Ethiopia

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned for the welfare of tens of thousands of vulnerable internally displaced people (IDPs) in southern Ethiopia, following an… Read more »

Libya: Thousands of People At Risk As Fighting Escalates in Tripoli

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely concerned for the safety of civilians in Tripoli as escalating fighting forces thousands of Libyan… Read more »

South Sudan: There's a Lot to Be Done to Address the Uncountable Health Needs

After years of civil war in South Sudan, Africa's youngest country, is in a state of relative calm, but people's medical and humanitarian needs are still enormous, explains MSF… Read more »

Rwanda: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide 25 Years On

When the massacres started in Rwanda twenty-five years ago, on April 7, 1994, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières teams suddenly found themselves caught… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Ebola Epidemic Not Under Control, Urgent Change of Strategy Needed

The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) made the following statement after the World Health… Read more »

Africa: Humanitarian Mechanism for Vaccines Used for First Time in Europe to Counter High Prices

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started vaccinating refugee children on the Greek islands of Chios, Samos and Lesvos using a programme set up to allow children in… Read more »

Libya: Trapped Refugees Must Be Released and Granted Safety From Tripoli Fighting

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is extremely concerned for civilians caught in the ongoing fighting in Tripoli, Libya, including refugees and migrants currently… Read more »

Africa: Child Health - Children With Chronic Diseases Need Our Attention

While children with chronic diseases - such as heart disease, diabetes, asthma, and epilepsy - are not the majority of MSF's paediatric patients, the needs of these children… Read more »

Central African Republic: MSF Denounces Killing of Medical Worker

The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the killing on April 4 of Gaulbert… Read more »