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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) frequently publishes updates, press releases, and other forms of communication about its work in more than 60 countries around the world. See the list below for the most recent updates or search by location, topic, or year.

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How Aid Workers Fight Burnout

January 15, 2018

Aid workers often have disturbing experiences while on assignment. MSF provides mental health care to staff before, during, and after they go to the field to help them prevent burnout and deal with trauma.
Field news

World Mental Health Day: Healing Hidden Wounds in Colombia

October 10, 2017

MSF began providing primary health services in Nariño department in 2010 and started offering mental health services in urban areas of Tumaco in 2014 following a surge in violence.

Press release

MSF Deploys Psychosocial Teams to Mexico City, Assessing Medical Needs in Morelos State

September 21, 2017

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has deployed four psychosocial support teams in several areas of Mexico City and is closely evaluating the psychological and medical needs in the state of Morelos following the powerful earthquake that struck on September 19, said the international medical humanitarian organization on Thursday.
Voice from the Field

Colombia: “Violence isn’t only something out there; it also exists within the home”

August 16, 2017

Despite the end of Colombia’s 50-year long conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People’s Army (FARC–EP) in November 2016, violence continues to have serious consequences for people’s lives and health.
Field news

Honduras: Mental Health Care for Victims of Violence

January 26, 2017

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expanded activities in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, and its sister city Comayagüela in 2016. In both cities MSF provides mental health care for victims of various types of violence, including kidnapping, extortion, assault, threats, and more.
Field news

Iraq: Providing Mental Health Care to People Displaced by Conflict in Mosul

January 10, 2017
Field news

South Sudan: MSF Treats More than 2,700 Following Violence in Juba

July 20, 2016

In the week following a recent round of fighting in Juba, South Sudan’s capital, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams treated more than 2,700 patients in four clinics across the city. The organization has also been supplying clean drinking water in Juba and performing surgeries for people more seriously wounded during the violence.
Press release

MSF Opens Rome Rehabilitation Center for Survivors of Torture and Inhumane Treatment

April 14, 2016

New York/Rome—Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Rome have opened a rehabilitation center for survivors of torture and other forms of inhumane treatment. The center will offer medical, psychological, and socio-legal assistance to any migrant, refugee, or asylum seeker who was tortured or subjected to other forms of targeted violence, regardless of their place of origin or current legal status.
Field news

Mediterranean: "I Was Inside the Ship When it Started Sinking"

August 12, 2015

Mohammed, Diana, and Azeel

Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed clutches his one-year-old daughter Azeel in his arms while his wife Diana, her eyes bright red from salty sea water, tries to collect herself inside the hospital area on board the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) rescue ship Dignity 1.
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Mental Health for Victims of Conflict: Invisible Wounds

October 14, 2014

 

October 10 was World Mental Health Day. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works to help victims of conflict to recover from their psychological distress in the field.

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