Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Patient and Staff Stories - 13 Sep 2016
DRC: 'Lights Off! And on again' - Solar energy for a sustainable Shamwana
Technical logistician, Per-Erik, writes about the struggle to keep the lights (and everything else) running at a hospital in DRCPatient and Staff Stories - 13 Sep 2016
Activity Report
Report - 12 Sep 2016
Lives on the edge: Time to align medical research and Development with people’s health needs
The report looks at a broad range of policies aimed at changing this dynamic by encouraging the development of medical tools that truly respond to patient and public health needs, and ensuring they are made broadly accessible. It illustrates how MSF staff and patients around the world are impacted by the way medical R&D is predominantly conducted today.Report - 12 Sep 2016
South Africa
Press Release - 12 Sep 2016
South Africa: Provocative Doctors Without Borders digital campaign challenges South Africans on principled humanitarian action
We don’t care about why, who or where – we care about saving lives with medical care.Press Release - 12 Sep 2016
Yemen
Fieldworkers Stories - 12 Sep 2016
Yemen: “Healthcare at breaking point”
Medical teams and patients in Yemen face extraordinary difficulties in a conflict that does not respect the sanctity of hospitals or the injured.Fieldworkers Stories - 12 Sep 2016
Drug-resistant TB
Press Release - 12 Sep 2016
MSF urges governments to set medical research policies that align with people’s health needs
New MSF report exposes pharma industry failings and highlights new ways of researching and developing medicines that address public health needsPress Release - 12 Sep 2016
Access to medicines
Issue Brief: Time to align medical research with people’s health needs
Issue brief: It's time to align medical research with people's health needs, advocating for patient-centred innovation. Briefing Document - 12 Sep 2016Syria: “We cannot go and leave our people behind; we do not have the right to leave them alone”
Another attack has damaged another hospital in east Aleppo and forced MSF teams to close.- 9 Sep 2016
Niger: MSF assists hundreds of newly displaced in eastern Diffa
Over the last few days, more than 200 families from Nigeria and Chad have reached the town of Toumour fleeing violence and hunger in their hometowns.Latest News - 9 Sep 2016
Measles
Fieldworkers Stories - 9 Sep 2016
Kim Phillips: "Logistics is the engine room of MSF - making medical care possible”
MSF logistician Kim Phillips, hailing from South Africa, just completed a challenging 9 month assignment in Sierra Leone where she was part of team refurbishing a hospital and undertaking a measles vaccination campaign targeting 65,000 people all at the same time.Fieldworkers Stories - 9 Sep 2016
Jordan
Patient and Staff Stories - 8 Sep 2016
Jordan: " We hear the sounds of bombing daily, and the ground shakes beneath our feet"
MSF continues to advocate for the need to resume medical evacuations of war-wounded Syrians through Jordan’s northwestern borders, to allow the most urgent cases a chance at receiving life-saving medical care in Ramtha hospital, just less than 5kms from the borders with neighbouring Syria.Patient and Staff Stories - 8 Sep 2016