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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

Think Progress: Refugees Fled to Greece for Safety. They Arrived at a Living Hell.

March 23, 2018

MSF staff members on the Greek island of Lesbos describe the horrendous conditions of Moria refugee camp and the impact on the mental health of MSF's patients. View External Media.

 
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.

Field news

Mexico: “One in four patients has experienced violence”

August 22, 2017

MSF’s goal is to provide direct medical and mental health care and social assistance to communities in one of Mexico’s most troubled areas.

Field news

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

January 10, 2017
Field news

DRC: Solar Energy for a Sustainable Shamwana

September 06, 2016

After ten years of working in Shamwana, in Tanganyika Province in southern DRC, MSF handed over its activities to the MoH on August 12, 2016.

Slideshow

Traumatized by the War in Syria, and Recovering

March 26, 2015

Omar Al Balkhi, 29, was injured in a bomb blast in Daraa, Syria, and treated first in a field hospital.

Voice from the Field

Little Time to Grieve: Mental Health Care in Pakistan

September 08, 2014

 

“A lot of people are surprised that talking and counseling can help,” says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) psychologist Saràh Dina. “It is a very medication dependent society. When someone has a problem they tend to just take a pill.”

Dina recently completed a nine-month assignment in Pakistan, where she coordinated the work of a team of MSF mental health counselors working in Balochistan province. Here, she discusses what she saw, heard, and learned during the experience:
Field news

Providing Medical and Psychosocial Care in and around Nablus

February 04, 2014

In the village of Salem, near Hebron, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) psychologist named Wissam meets with a woman called Um Taha for the second time. She is 48. Her husband died five years ago and she lives in Salem with her nine children.

Um Taha’s 28-year-old son was recently arrested by the Israeli army. Troops stormed the house one night, beat Um Taha and aimed a gun at her, she says. They also turned the house upside down, destroying everything they found.
Voice from the Field

Providing Psychological Care in the Palestinian Territories

January 27, 2014

In Hebron and East Jerusalem, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a medical and psychosocial program for people suffering from conflict-related trauma. MSF teams focus on people with psychological distress (acute stress, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic syndromes, depression) related to violent incidents with Israeli settlers, the Israeli Army, or other Palestinian parties. Here, an MSF psychologist describes a session with a patient in Hebron.
Field news

"An Emergency in Itself": Mental Health Needs Among Syrians in Iraq

October 07, 2013

As the humanitarian situation inside Syria continues to worsen, mental health needs among refugees who have fled the country are steadily increasing. Ahead of World Mental Health Day on October 10, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) wants to highlight the plight of Syrians in northern Iraq’s Domeez refugee camp, where MSF’s counselors and psychologists are seeing growing numbers of patients presenting with far more acute symptoms than a year ago.

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