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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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Syria: Displaced People From Eastern Ghouta Need Treatment

April 13, 2018

Roughly 60,000 people have been displaced from eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, to northwestern Syria in the past month. A significant number of these men, women, and children are injured or sick and in need of medical care. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports the main hospital in charge of triaging and treating these patients at a location known as the "zero point," where people arrive on buses.
Field news

Refugees who fled violence in Ituri, DRC, face disease and privation in Uganda

April 05, 2018

The attackers wore masks and used axes, machetes, and guns to slaughter civilians in the strife-torn Ituri province of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), says Areiti, a mother of seven children. 

The morning the violence came to her village of Joo, she had no time to prepare her family’s escape. “I saw how they were killing people,” the 37-year-old says. “They cut people with axes and they slaughter with machetes. You cannot see them clearly because they are running after you. They attacked our village before Christmas, and we spent Christmas in the bush.”
Press release

US Signals End to Relief and Recovery Funding for Syria Despite Urgent Needs for Demining and Medical Care

April 04, 2018

GENEVA/NEW YORK, APRIL 4, 2018—The number of patients treated for injuries related to land mines and improvised explosives has doubled at an MSF-supported hospital in Hassakeh in northeast Syria in recent months, with more than half of the injuries affecting children, some as young as one, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
Slideshow

DRC: Seeking Shelter from the Violence in Ituri

March 27, 2018

More than 100,000 people have been forced from their homes in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as a result of violence involving the Lendu and Hema communities.
Video

Giving Women Choices: Fouzia's Story

March 06, 2018

Approximately 40 percent of pregnancies worldwide are unintended, and for displaced women the risks are even greater.
Press release

Nigeria: MSF Suspends Medical Activities in Rann Following Attack

March 02, 2018

GENEVA/NEW YORK, MARCH 2, 2018—Following a violent attack yesterday near Rann, in Nigeria's Borno state, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) suspended its medical activities in the town and evacuated 22 Nigerian and international staff.

It is still unclear how many people were killed and injured in the attack, but before leaving, MSF medical staff treated nine wounded patients.
Field news

Conflict and Displacement in DRC Fuel an Acute Humanitarian Emergency in Uganda

March 01, 2018

In December, violence flared between communities in the Ituri province of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The conflict intensified in February when fighting broke out in the Djugu area.
Press release

Iraq: Urgent Needs Must not be Forgotten as International Conference on Reconstruction Begins

February 12, 2018

An international conference on the reconstruction of Iraq is underway in Kuwait this week. Carla Brooijmans, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of mission for Iraq, gave the following statement after a meeting in Kuwait today of aid organizations responding to humanitarian needs in Iraq:
Press release

Syria: Deadly Airstrikes Damage Hospital Supported by MSF in Idlib

January 29, 2018

Two airstrikes hit a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Syria's Idlib governorate today, causing deaths and injuries and seriously damaging the facility, according to the hospital manager, who contacted MSF.
Field news

Syria: Families Displaced by Fighting Struggle for Survival in Winter Cold

January 24, 2018

Intense fighting, including air strikes and ground shelling, has dramatically intensified in northern Syria since mid-December 2017, fueling one of the largest displacements of people since the war began. The increased violence, concentrated in areas of northeastern Hama, southern Aleppo, and southern Idlib governorates, is taking a profound toll on a population already suffering from nearly seven years of conflict.

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