Press Release
Sudan 2012 © MSF
Increasing restrictions imposed by Sudanese authorities have forced MSF to suspend most of its medical activities in the Jebel Si region of North Darfur State in Sudan.
Chad 2012 © Andrea Bussotti/MSF
Voice from the Field
May 23, 2012
As a food crisis spreads and malnutrition levels continue to rise, MSF is expanding the number of emergency malnutrition treatment programs it is operating in the country.
2012 © Google
Press Release
May 21, 2012
In Yemen, MSF teams have treated over 50 people in the last week amidst increased violence in the south of the country.
South Sudan 2011 © Avril Benoit/MSF
Press Release
May 15, 2012
A new, ten-year, multi-billion dollar action plan for global vaccination may fail to deliver if it does not directly address the weaknesses in routine immunization programs.
Afghanistan 2012 © Michael Goldfarb/MSF
Slideshow
May 21, 2012
Before the opening of the MSF surgical hospital in Kunduz Province, few people with severe injuries received the trauma care they needed.
Syria 2012 © MSF
Press Release
May 14, 2012
Wounded people and medical workers remain targeted and threatened in parts of Syria, preventing people from receiving life-saving emergency medical care.
Press Release
May 21, 2012
MSF urges health ministers at the World Health Assembly to pass a resolution to jumpstart R&D for unmet medical needs.
Burkina Faso 2012 © Aurelie Baumel/MSF
Press Release
May 11, 2012
Refugees from the West African country of Mali face insufficient levels of assistance in camps rife with disease and malnutrition where the looming rainy season will further complicate the deployment of aid.
Nigeria 2012 © Olga Overbeek/MSF
Press Release
May 11, 2012
The Nigerian government must commit significant resources to respond to a lead poisoning epidemic in Zamfara State, which has sickened thousands of children since 2010.
Haiti 2011 © Frederik Matte/MSF
Press Release
May 9, 2012
Cholera cases are on the rise in Haiti following the onset of the rainy season, and the country is not adequately prepared to combat the deadly disease.
2012 © Google
Field News
May 17, 2012
Following weeks of no new cases, MSF is set to close an emergency cholera intervention in Somalia's Middle Shabelle region.
DRC 2012 © Emily Lynch/MSF
Field News
May 4, 2012
Despite the growing complexity of an already unstable situation in North Kivu, MSF continues to provide primary and secondary health care to the population.
Video
May 11, 2012
Ninety-thousand refugees fleeing conflict have taken refuge in the camps of Jamam and Doro. Aid is desperately needed before the rainy season complicates access to the camps.
Field Blogs
May 3, 2012
Judit Rius Sanjuan, U.S. manager of MSF's Access Campaign, discusses the WHO Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination.
Video
May 11, 2012
The difficult lean season in Chad has already begun, and MSF is working to treat malnutrition as quickly as possible. MSF teams screen for cases of severe malnutrition and distribute ready-to-use therapeutic food to malnourished children.
Palestinian Territories 2012 © Mateja Stare/MSF
Voice from the Field
April 30, 2012
Operating theater nurse Mateja Stare spent one month in Gaza working at the MSF field hospital in Khan Younis.
Guinea 2012 © MSF
Field News
April 24, 2012
After a cholera epidemic broke out in Guinea, MSF began a mass vaccination campaign, the first time the organization has done so in Africa.
Uganda 2011 © Andrea Stultiens
Special Report
April 19, 2012
MSF is convinced that the Ugandan government's focus should be on providing comprehensive, decentralized, and community-based care for TB.
South Sudan 2011 © Corentin Fohlen
Field News
April 12, 2012
MSF is treating patients wounded in the April 10 aerial bombardments of Abiemnom in South Sudan's Unity State.
Video
March 15, 2012
MSF's Month in Focus brings you reports on Somali refugees in Dadaab, Novartis' attempts to stifle production of generics, and the fights against TB, sleeping sickness, and maternal mortality.
Angola 1999 © H.J. Burkard
Press Release
January 30, 2012
The new book Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed takes readers behind the scenes of MSF's humanitarian action.
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