Still violence, still suffering
As envoys from the United Nations and the African Union arrive in Khartoum and depart after another round of talks, the conflict in Darfur rumbles on. The humanitarian situation in this troubled...
View ArticleMeningitis: Limited vaccine threatens Médecins Sans Frontières response to...
Barely two months into Africa’s dry season, there are several countries facing severe outbreaks of meningitis. Médecins Sans Frontières is responding to epidemics in the Democratic Republic of Congo,...
View ArticleFear in the heart of India
India is known to be a land with enormous differences dividing the poor and the rich. However, few people know that there is also a great contrast there between living freely and living in fear. The...
View ArticleDisplaced in eastern Chad: One koro of millet to feed thirteen mouths
A plough lies in the shade of the straw hut and is a reminder of the time when M. Abdulai was still a farmer. Agriculture didn’t make him rich. Everything that is harvested at the end of the brief...
View ArticleMédecins Sans Frontières responds to Peru quake with personnel and relief...
On the evening of August 15, a powerful 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit the coast of Peru. According to the latest estimates from Peru’s fire service, over 500 people were killed and 1,600 injured. The...
View ArticleHeavy fighting erupts in Cité Soleil, a deprived slum of Port-au-Prince
Early in the morning of January 24th, heavy fighting erupted between UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti troops (MINUSTAH) and local armed groups in the Haitian capital’s slum of Cité Soleil.
View ArticleMédecins Sans Frontières resumes activities in Dinsor, new project opens in...
In the following interview, Gustavo Fernandez, Head of Mission in Somalia for Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland, explains some of the challenges faced by Médecins Sans Frontières in bringing...
View ArticleInterview with Dr. Cathy Hewison, Médecins Sans Frontières' meningitis...
Barely two months into Africa’s dry season, there are several countries facing severe outbreaks of meningitis. Médecins Sans Frontières is already responding to epidemics in the Democratic Republic of...
View ArticleIndonesia earthquake - Médecins Sans Frontières update
A Médecins Sans Frontières team composed of six people arrived yesterday (Wednesday) morning at 5am local time in Pedang. The team is composed of a doctor, two nurses, one psychologist and two...
View ArticleMédecins Sans Frontières opens three surgical programmes amidst ongoing...
Throughout 2006, tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the armed conflict in Sri Lanka while at least 15 000 people have fled to India. For the past 9 months, Médecins Sans Frontières has...
View ArticleMédecins Sans Frontières international staff return to Somalia
Médecins Sans Frontières has begun returning its expatriate staff to Somalia. Médecins Sans Frontières’s international aid workers were evacuated from the country as fighting escalated in December....
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Médecins Sans Frontières launches a vaccination campaign for 688,500 children...
A measles epidemic has struck the Tanganyika district of Katanga in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where hundreds of thousands of children are not immunised. Médecins Sans Frontières has...
View ArticleTherapeutic care and food aid for malnourished children in southern Ethiopia
Addis Ababa - 11,800 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition have been admitted to Médecins Sans Frontières programs in the Oromiya and Southern Nations and Nationalities People’s (SNNP)...
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Nurse
In January 2006 Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson was elected Liberian President and in doing so became Africa's first elected woman head of state. One of the biggest challenges ahead is healthcare, as Sydney...
View Article"Volunteer NGO of 2007" in Sudan: Médecins Sans Frontières emphasizes...
The Republic of Sudan has decided to award 'Volunteer NGO of 2007' to Médecins Sans Frontières in acknowledgement of its "professionalism and commitment". Médecins Sans Frontières is using the...
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Doctor
Dr Meena Okera, a doctor from South Australia, is on her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières and working on the HIV/AIDS and TB programme in Homa Bay, Kenya. Here, Meena describes the human...
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Nurse
Anna Dicker is a nurse from Lennox Head in northern NSW. She is currently on her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières. I have been in Niertiti for 2 months now and am in the routine of managing...
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Doctor
Dr Paul Kwa and Dr Ruth Eagles, two Australian doctors from Townsville, are currently working together in Aweil, South Sudan, a region that is still recovering from a long-running civil war that ended...
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Doctor
Karen Kiang, a medical doctor from Northcote in Victoria, has recently returned from southern China. It was her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières and she was working in Nanning, where...
View ArticleAfter a Week of Intense Fighting in Somalia, Médecins Sans Frontières is...
For the past week, Médecins Sans Frontières has treated approximately 250 people wounded in the ongoing fighting in Somalia. Following a serious incident in a Médecins Sans Frontières medical facility...
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