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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.

Voice from the Field

Yemen: Trapped in a Many-Layered Crisis

March 29, 2018

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of mission Djoen Besselink recently returned from Yemen, where he witnessed how the country’s pervasive conflict has affected nearly every aspect of Yemeni life. Here he describes the situation.
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What’s Behind the Diphtheria Outbreak in Bangladesh?

February 26, 2018

MSF has now treated more than 4,000 people for diphtheria since December 2017, according to Carla Pla, project medical director for an MSF hospital in Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh. Nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees are living in camps in this area.  

NPR: Monsoon Rains Could Devastate Rohingya Camps

February 09, 2018

Marcella Kraay, project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Bangladesh, talks to NPR about preparing for additional waterborne disease outbreaks during the upcoming monsoon season that is expected to flood the camps. View External Media. 
Voice from the Field

Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: “We Should Not Be Seeing Cases of Diphtheria”

January 29, 2018

A diphtheria outbreak is raging in the refugee camps in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh, where nearly 700,000 Rohingya people have settled after fleeing violence and persecution across the border in Myanmar. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor Rosie Burton recently returned from Bangladesh, where she spent one month working in a diphtheria treatment center run by the organization. Here, she describes the situation.
Voice from the Field

Diphtheria in Bangladesh: A Disease of the Past Poses a New Threat

January 05, 2018

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières doctor Nina Goldman is currently in Bangladesh, where MSF provides medical care to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled violence in neighboring Myanmar. Here, she describes the diphtheria outbreak that is currently affecting the makeshift camps where refugees have settled.
Press release

Yemen: Diphtheria Spreads as War and Blockade Leave Health System in Tatters

December 12, 2017

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to a suspected outbreak of diphtheria in Yemen, where the disease has reemerged as the country's health system is weakened by ongoing war and a blockade on essential goods.