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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.

In the News

KVSF: Dr. Uli Lebkuechner, Doctors Without Borders Mission in Afghanistan

July 17, 2017

KVSF speaks with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) obstetrician, Dr. Uli Lebkuechner, about her assignment at MSF’s maternity hospital in Khost, eastern Afghanistan—one of the largest maternity hospitals in the world. View External Media.
Press release

MSF: Trump Administration's Expanded Global Gag Rule Puts Lives of Women and Children at Risk

May 16, 2017

The US government on Monday announced that the so-called “Global Gag Rule” on abortion will now include all global health assistance programs, a decision that could have devastating effects on women and children all over the world and halt decades of progress on global health, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today.
Field news

International Women’s Day 2017: Safe Delivery Care in Afghanistan

March 07, 2017

On International Women’s Day 2017, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) celebrates the women of Afghanistan and highlights the dangers they face during pregnancy and childbirth.
Press release

Doctors Without Borders Statement on the Reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy on Abortion

January 25, 2017

NEW YORK, JANUARY 25, 2017—The reinstatement of the US government’s Mexico City Policy by President Donald J. Trump, which prohibits nongovernmental organizations that receive US funding from either performing or providing counseling or information on abortion, will undermine access to safe abortion services and endanger the lives of women, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Wednesday.
Voice from the Field

An East Aleppo Mother's Lament: “Did I Give Birth to Him to See a Life Like This?”

November 29, 2016

War-torn Aleppo is no place to raise children, but Umm Leen has seven kids, and they’ve never left the besieged city. Here, Leen tells her story about delivering a child into a city under constant target.
Field news

MSF Ships Rescue Nearly 2,000 People in One Day on the Mediterranean

October 03, 2016

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) search and rescue teams on board the ships Bourbon Argos, Dignity I, and Aquarius (which is run in partnership with the humanitarian organization SOS MEDITERRANEE) rescued nearly 2,000 men, women, and children from 11 separate boats in less than seven hours on the Mediterranean Sea. Many of the rescues were conducted under dramatic circumstances, with some patients requiring evacuation to the Italian mainland.

Field news

Pakistan: Five Years of Providing Care at Peshawar Women's Hospital

July 07, 2016

In 2011, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a hospital dedicated to providing care to women living in rural areas in northeastern Pakistan. On May 18, 2016, Peshawar Women’s Hospital marked its fifth anniversary. Today, the hospital admits around 85 patients every week and safely delivers more than 4,700 babies each year.
Voice from the Field

Gunshots and Grenades in Yemen: A Doctor Reflects

June 15, 2016

“This was the first time I was confronted with injuries caused by gunshots, grenades and mines, and they were often horrific injuries,” says Helmut Shoengen, an anesthetist and doctor who recently returned from working in Aden, Yemen, with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

“We treated many severely injured patients—men, women and children as well—with gunshot wounds to their heads, chests, abdomens, arms and legs,” he says. “Grenade injuries were bad, because they often included burn injuries to the face.
Voice from the Field

Afghanistan: Providing Maternal Health Care to Marginalized Populations

May 02, 2016

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) women's health advisor and midwife Kara Blackburn recently completed an assessment of MSF’s fastest-growing emergency obstetrics and neonatal care project, in Dasht-e-Barchi Hospital in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Here she discusses the context.
Idea/Opinion

Haiti: A Heavy Toll From Cuts To Donor Support of Maternal Health Care

December 10, 2015

By Paul Brockmann, Country Director MSF Haiti

Serene Princeton’s amniotic fluids were leaking for two weeks. During that time, she went looking for help at a number of Port-au-Prince hospitals, including the Centre de Référence en Urgence Obstétricales (CRUO) run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

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