27 November 2012
MSF takes you inside the violence of Jonglei state to show you its impact on civilians, especially women and children, and medical facilities. Despite repeated attacks on its medical facilities, MSF remains committed to providing medical care in the embattled state.
21 February 2012
08 February 2012
As India and the European Union prepare to meet at a New Delhi summit to finalize a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) under negotiation since 2007, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), SECTION27 and He-Tic held a picket to warn that harmful provisions in the agreement could have a severely negative impact on access to medicine for people in developing countries.
Photo: Borrie La Grange/MSF
Photo: Borrie La Grange/MSF
Photo: Borrie La Grange/MSF
Photo: Borrie La Grange/MSF
An HIV activist...
14 October 2011
In the Starved for Attention film “Why Do We Have To Wait For A Crisis?” photojournalist Lynsey Addario documents the food crisis in Somalia and northeastern Kenya. All children have the same nutritional needs to grow and thrive. It shouldn’t take a war or famine to occur before vulnerable children have access to a healthy diet. http://www.starvedforattention.org/
Somali refugees wait in Liboi, right across the Kenyan border, to be relocated to Dagahaley camp by the IOM, August 20, 2011. Dadaab, with roughly 400,000 refugees, is the largest refugee camps in the world. The horn of Africa is suffering one of the worst droughts in years, displacing thousands, and killing others through severe...
06 October 2011
To raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and the challenges in treating the epidemic in southern Africa, MSF hosted the INTERVALO! sporting event in Maputo, Mozambique on 14 September, midway during the 10th All Africa Games.
The event brought together 24 athletes, made up of patients living positively with HIV along with MSF staff involved in HIV care from 5 Southern African countries – Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
INTERVALO! highlighted the determination and commitment of people on the frontlines of the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and demonstrated the positive impact of antiretroviral drugs in fighting a disease that wipes out 2 million people worldwide each year.
Each of the fun sporting events...
01 August 2011
Nearly half of the 118,000 Somalis currently stationed in the Liben refugee camp on the Ethiopean border – initially built to house 45,000 – arrived in the last two months alone. These mostly semi-nomadic shepherds and small-scale farmers - and their families - waited as long as they could for rains that never came. These images capture their arrival in the Liben camps and the desperate search for means of survival in a place they may never be able to leave.
Kobe camp, Liben. “The refugees arrive in very weak health after the long journey to the Ethiopian border from their place of origin,” explains Guillem Pérez, coordinator of the emergency in Liben, Ethiopia. Semi-...
27 July 2011
Somali refugees continue to arrive at the overcrowded camp complex in Dadaab, northeastern Kenya, every day. They are fleeing the violent conflict in Somalia and the devastating effects of ongoing drought and lack of food. The third week of July alone brought 5,117 new refugees, pushing the total number of people in and around the Dadaab camp to 387,893. The three camp sites—Ifo, Hagadera and Dagahaley—were originally built to hold a combined 90,000 people.
Most of the new arrivals must remain on the outskirts of the overcrowded camp, where they are not receiving adequate assistance and must contend with delays in registration and access to food, water, and shelter. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiè...
20 June 2011
The earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010 reportedly left 300,000 wounded, and 1.5 million homeless. Soon afterwards, a cholera epidemic swept the country, killing more than 5,000. Photo: Yann Libessart/MSF
Although the situation is no longer covered as extensively as it was in 2010, huge health needs remain in Haiti. Photo: Yann Libessart/MSF
The needs are for surgery, post-operative care, and obstetric care. Photo: Yann Libessart/MSF
Cholera is still a concern. In Port-au-Prince, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treatment centers have seen an increase in cases since mid-May. Photo:...
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