COVID-19 Coronavirus
China: Médecins Sans Frontières response to COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak
Specialised medical protective equipment from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is on its way to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital in the capital city of Hubei province, China, the epicentre of the current coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. Article - 17 Feb 2020![The road to Metuge is heavily damaged due to the cyclone and rains [MSF-SPAIN]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf270286_medium.jpg?itok=OcKFiV6R "The road to Metuge is heavily damaged due to the cyclone and rains [MSF-SPAIN]")
Access to medicines
Northern Mozambique: Invisible conflict, very real consequences
MSF has been providing healthcare in Cabo Delgado province, one of the poorest and most isolated regions of Mozambique since February 2019. Early activities were rapidly disrupted by Cyclone Kenneth and replaced with emergency response to displacement and cholera. Since then, MSF has been building up healthcare activities. Bruno Cardoso, MSF’s project coordinator, has just returned from Mozambique and tells us more about the situation and what MSF does there. Interview - 13 Feb 2020
Mental Health
No Way Out: Doctors Without Borders Report Shows Damaging Health Impacts of US-Mexico Migration Policies
Mexico City/New York, NY, February 11, 2020—New migration policies imposed by the United States and Mexico are trapping many Central Americans in dangerous conditions, with severe consequences for their physical and mental health, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a report released today. Article - 10 Feb 2020
Malaria
Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo: Hundreds of thousands uprooted by conflict in desperate need of assistance
Over one million people have been displaced by violence in Ituri since December 2017. About 200.000 are currently living in dire conditions on displaced people sites, in makeshift shelters, lacking food, clean water and access to health care. Article - 10 Feb 2020
Access to Healthcare
Liberia: A growing cohort of epilepsy patients shows how life-changing treatment is possible
One of the world's most common neurological diseases, epilepsy affects nearly 50 million people, but in low-income countries more than 75 percent of people with epilepsy do not have access to treatment, according to World Health Organization figures. In Liberia, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works in collaboration with five local health facilities to treat more than 1,300 epilepsy patients. Ahead of International Epilepsy Day, February 10, Emmanuel Ballah, an MSF mental health and epilepsy supervisor in Monrovia, Liberia, describes the challenges that people face with epilepsy and how MSF is working with families, communities and health facilities to treat these patients: Stories from the Frontline - 6 Feb 2020
Access to Healthcare
Northeast Nigeria: “The conflict is intensifying and the needs are massive”
Interview with Luis Eguiluz, MSF Head of Mission in Nigeria since 2017 on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the northeast of the country. Stories from the Frontline - 5 Feb 2020
Primary care
"The Care My Patients Need": Local Health Workers Driving Change in South Sudan
Videos and Photos - 4 Feb 2020
HIV/AIDS
Four things you need to know about South Sudanese refugees in Sudan
In December 2019, MSF opened a new 85-bed hospital in White Nile state, Sudan, upgrading the existing services in order to strengthen the quality of healthcare provided to South Sudanese refugees and the local community. The hospital, in Al Kashafa refugee camp, provides primary and secondary healthcare for patients with complicated conditions, including severely malnourished children and people with chronic infectious diseases, such as HIV and tuberculosis (TB). Article - 4 Feb 2020
Neglected Diseases
Neglected Tropical Diseases: ‘Incredible progress has been made but there’s still a long way to go’
“I’m heartened at how much progress has been made in the fight against neglected tropical diseases over the last few decades. There have been substantial advances in terms of coverage and innovations, compared to when MSF started treating patients 20 to 30 years ago. This is good news for the more than one billion people affected by NTDs, who are among the world’s poorest and most marginalized. Stories from the Frontline - 30 Jan 2020
Refugees, Migration and displacement