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June 30, 2009

Pakistan: MSF Increases Support as Health Facilities Struggle

Pakistan’s Mardan District, in North West Frontier Province, is trying to cope with an influx of more than one million people fleeing war in the region. MSF has increased the number of hospital wards in the Mardan Medical Complex and is supporting the nearby Takht Bhai Rural Health Center to help treat the growing number of patients. Read more »

June 29, 2009

Bangladesh / India: Shelter Main Priority for Cyclone Survivors

One month after cyclone Aila struck Bangladesh and the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, people continue to suffer from ongoing floods during high tide. Shelter, drinking water, food and sanitation are badly needed. People in remote areas have reportedly still not received any help. Read more »

June 26, 2009

Somalia: Hijack of MSF-Rented Vehicle Ends in Tragic Death

In the early evening of Wednesday, June 24, 2009, a private vehicle rented by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was attacked in North Galcayo, Somalia as it returned from referring a patient from one MSF facility in the south of the city to another facility in the north. Read more »

June 23, 2009

Bangladesh: Rohingya Forced Out of Makeshift Camp With Nowhere to Go

Laila is one of 25,000 unregistered Rohingya refugees in the area who have sought a safe place to live on the outskirts of the state-endorsed refugee camp supported by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Unlike their approximately 10,000 registered counterparts, the unregistered refugees in Kutupalong struggle to survive day to day, living in squalid conditions, vulnerable to ill health and exploitation. Read more »

June 18, 2009

Burundi: After Six Years Treating Rape Victims, MSF Hands Over Bujumbura Project

On June 19, 2009, MSF will hand over operation of the Seruka Center in the Burundian capital of Bujumbura, to a local association. Read more »

June 18, 2009

Pakistan: More War-Wounded and Displaced Civilians Coming from Lower Dir District

Coming mainly from neighboring Swat, but also from the Maidan area in Lower Dir, more than 150 war-wounded have been treated since the end of April. At the same time, families from Maidan have been arriving in the two camps for displaced people where MSF is working. Read more »

June 18, 2009 | Press Release

Long-Suffering Rohingya in Bangladesh Face Unacceptable Abuse

Kutupalong, Bangladesh, June 18, 2009—Thousands of unregistered Rohingya refugees living in the Kutupalong makeshift camp, Bangladesh, are being forcibly displaced from their homes, in an act of intimidation and abuse by the local authorities. Read more »

June 17, 2009 | Press Release

Growing Insecurity Forces MSF to Leave its Largest Health Center in Somalia

Nairobi/Brussels, June 17, 2009 — After nine years of providing health care for the population in Bakool region, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reached the regrettable conclusion that it does not have sufficient security to continue its work. This decision was MSF’s alone and the organization was not expelled by the authorities. MSF medical activities elsewhere in Somalia continue. Read more »

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