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Libya: Médecins Sans Frontières evacuates over 70 war-wounded by boat from Misrata

Libya / 05.04.11

SFAX, TUNISIA/GENEVA, 4 April 2011 -- The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières evacuated 71 patients by boat on Sunday 3 April from the Libyan city of Misrata, where ongoing violence has...

Ivory Coast: Alarming numbers of new wounded in West. Médecins Sans Frontières calls for immediate end to violence against civilians

Ivory Coast / 04.04.11

The situation remains extremely tense and violent in and around several cities in western Ivory Coast, despite the ending of major fighting on March 31 between armed forces in the area.

Libya: Médecins Sans Frontières reiterates its calls for urgent unhindered access to the wounded

Libya / 04.04.11

Geneva, 1 April 2011 -- As the conflict continues in Libya, the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is pursuing a variety of measures to assist people affected by the violence in the western part of...

Italy: Médecins Sans Frontières claims sanitary conditions below humanitarian standards. Calls on Italian authorities to improve reception conditions for migrants

Italy, Libya / 04.04.11

Rome, April 1, 2011 – According to the independent international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières, hygiene and sanitary conditions in the migrant reception centres on the island of Lampedusa are intolerable. Proper...

Ivory Coast: Civilians Must Not Be Targeted and Must Have Access to Medical Care

Ivory Coast / 01.04.11

PARIS/BRUSSELS, MARCH 31, 2011 – New outbreaks of fighting in Ivory Coast are severely restricting already-limited civilian access to medical care, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières said...

DR Congo: “Measles epidemic spiralling out of control” according to Médecins Sans Frontières

Democratic Republic of Congo / 28.03.11

Over the past six months a measles epidemic has been sweeping through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Médecins Sans Frontières is raising the alarm and calling for concerted action to halt the spread of the disease.

Ivory Coast: Access to care under serious threat

Ivory Coast, Liberia / 28.03.11

PARIS, MARCH 25, 2011 -- Ivory Coast is experiencing a new spiral of violence that is endangering populations’ access to medical care. Confrontations raging in parts of the city of Abidjan and in the western part of the country...

New TB test to detect more people who need DR-TB treatment

24.03.11

Médecins Sans Frontières report says fixing drug supply and price problems is urgent.

Ivory Coast Population Trapped In Conflict

Ivory Coast / 16.03.11

PARIS, MARCH 16, 2011 - Increasingly intense armed confrontations over recent weeks in Ivory Coast, together with political gridlock, have had serious consequences on the country’s population, the international medical...

Libya: Médecins Sans Frontières is extremely concerned with the plight of the wounded; calls for unhindered access to medical care

Libya / 14.03.11

Geneva, 12 March 2011 – As conflict intensifies inside Libya, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is extremely concerned with the situation of the wounded caught in the middle of violent...

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