1838 Results
 
Floods in Somalia
Access to Healthcare

MSF responds to flooding in Somalia

MSF has started doing distribution of tents and kits for cooking, the construction of toilets and to provide safe drinking water. Press Release - 6 Nov 2019
 
Annie Kashung, MSF’s medical activity manager [Photo: Igor Barbero/MSF]
Access to Healthcare

Malaria outbreak in North Darfur, Sudan

Annie Kashung is MSF’s medical activity manager responding to the malaria outbreak in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan´s North Darfur state. In this interview, she provides some insight into what is happening in response to four questions: Interview - 4 Nov 2019
 
Flooded areas around Pibor. [Photo: Léo Martine/MSF]
Access to Healthcare

A state of emergency declared as flooding in South Sudan ensues

The government of South Sudan has declared a state of emergency in 27 flood-affected areas across the country. Press Release - 1 Nov 2019
 
Access to Healthcare

Treating People Amid Flood Disaster in South Sudan

Videos and Photos - 1 Nov 2019
 
MSF and TB activists disrupt opening of TB conference to protest drug corporations keeping life-saving medicines from people
Access to medicines

MSF and TB activists disrupt opening of TB conference to protest drug corporations keeping life-saving medicines from people

Newer medicines for DR-TB are desperately needed, but barriers to access, including high prices, keep them out of reach for most people around the world. Press Release - 31 Oct 2019
 
Northeast Nigeria: Now is not the time to question life-saving assistance [Photo: Yuna Cho/MSF]
Access to Healthcare

Northeast Nigeria: Now is not the time to question life-saving assistance

The conflict in northeast Nigeria continues, with Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in need of a massive and sustained humanitarian response. Press Release - 30 Oct 2019
 
Mental Health

Tips to De-Stress

Videos and Photos - 30 Oct 2019
 
Kidnapping of migrants has been for a while now a lucrative business for the criminal gangs operating in the Mexican northern cities bordering the US. [photo: Juan Carlos Tomasi]
Access to Healthcare

Increase in kidnappings and extreme violence against migrants on the southern border of Mexico

The policies of criminalisation, persecution, detention and deportation applied in Mexico in order to contain migratory flows to the northern border with the US have forced the migrant population to go underground and take increasingly dangerous routes where they are more vulnerable to criminal gangs and violence during their journey through Mexico.

 Press Release - 30 Oct 2019
 
On an aerial assessment from Bor to Pibor, areas can be seen completely submerged by flooding.
Access to Healthcare

South Sudan: “The only way to move around the hospital now is by boat”

MSF medical team leader Benedetta Capelli is just back from Pibor, in South Sudan, where rising floodwaters have engulfed MSF’s hospital and much of the surrounding area. She spoke to us on 24 October 2019.
Article - 28 Oct 2019
 
On an aerial assessment from Gumuruk to Lekongole, where MSF runs two primary healthcare units, people can be seen moving via canoes as their tukuls are completely submerged.
Access to Healthcare

Severe flooding in South Sudan: MSF assessing emergency needs in affected locations

Severe flooding has left thousands of people stranded in inaccessible areas in the east and north east of South Sudan , threatening to make worse an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Press Release - 21 Oct 2019