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The meningitis vaccination campaign began in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on March 14th. Médecins Sans Frontières is currently vaccinating the population at risk in three health zones in the capital city. Approximately...
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19/03/2007 |
Sudan |
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Weak, dehydrated and traumatized, the Rohingya people stepping off the boats that make it to Thailand’s shores tells an alarming story. This is a story that begins across the Andaman Sea that the Rohingya risk their lives to...
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23/02/2009 |
Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Bangladesh |
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A new diagnostic test for tuberculosis, endorsed by the World Health Organization in late 2010, could well be a game-changer in the international response to this disease that kills nearly two million people each year. It also...
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24/03/2011 |
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A violent attack by men armed with hammers, and the burning of a village of internally displaced people are two in a series of violent events suffered by people living in the Kivu Provinces of eastern Congo recently. The number...
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07/09/2010 |
Democratic Republic of Congo |
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Three weeks after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, many survivors still lack basic supplies needed to survive and the amount of aid entering the affected area remains inadequate.
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24/05/2008 |
Myanmar (Burma) |
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Six months have passed since cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, leaving an estimated 130,000 people dead or missing and altering the region immeasurably.
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29/10/2008 |
Myanmar (Burma) |
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In its two programs in Georgia and Abkhazia, Médecins Sans Frontières has introduced a new approach in care for patients suffering from multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB): in order to alleviate what are particularly...
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06/03/2008 |
Georgia |
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In the Zinder region of Niger, 4372 children suffering from malnutrition have already been treated by Médecins Sans Frontières since the beginning of the year. This figure is higher than the equivalent period in 2006 and is...
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19/06/2007 |
Niger |
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The blocks of cold cement that make up Baghrami market in east Kabul, Afghanistan, have become an accidental place of refuge for hundreds of families who had to leave their homes in Kapisa province to flee from the fighting....
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16/02/2010 |
Afghanistan |
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June 23, 2010. Médecins Sans Frontières staff worked together with local hospital staff at Boost hospital, Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, to treat 24 wounded after four explosions occurred in the city centre on...
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24/06/2010 |
Afghanistan |
