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Two Medecins Sans Frontieres staff members kidnapped then released in Democratic Republic of Congo

On the morning of Wednesday, 4 April two Médecins Sans Frontières staff members—Cedric, a nurse,...

Thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan: Médecins Sans Frontières starts emergency medical response in South Sudan

1st December 2011 Juba/Brussels – Over the past two weeks thousands of refugees have crossed the...

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	Topic	Date	Location
	“The Somali refugees on the border with Ethiopia are mostly women and children” Interview with Fréderic Maudoux, Médecins Sans Frontières Field Coordinator in Ethiopia	03/08/2010	Ethiopia, Somalia
	“Still No Weapons, No Fees” Médecins Sans Frontières in Afghanistan – One Year On	02/12/2010	Afghanistan
	“Somalia has some of the worst health indicators in the world and tuberculosis is not an exception” Interview with Luis Neira, Médecins Sans Frontières medical coordinator for Somalia, about the new tuberculosis (TB) services the organisation has started providing in two rural areas of Middle Shabelle region, South Central...	09/08/2010	Somalia
	“Our key priority is to gain immediate access to the wounded in areas affected by violence within Libya” Since the onset of violent clashes in Libya in mid-February, Médecins Sans Frontières has been able to reach the town of Benghazi, in the eastern part of Libya, where the team is supporting medical facilities and trying to access...	07/03/2011	Libya
	“Our activities in Somalia try to progress despite limited access” Somalia has been in a state of war for 20 years. Today, forces of the Transitional Federal Government supported by the African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) are fighting with Al-Shabaab armed group in Mogadishu and other...	22/08/2011	Somalia
	“Iraqi patients would die without dialysis” Some 20 patients are currently treated with dialysis at Kirkuk hospital, in northern Iraq. This number represents just a fraction of those in need.	23/11/2010	Iraq
	“Experience shows that treating and curing Chagas is possible” In the Greater Chaco region, which covers Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia, Chagas is endemic. As the largest parasitic killer in the Americas, there are between 10 and 15 million Chagas cases worldwide, with about 14,000 deaths...	28/02/2011	Paraguay
	“Access to health care for villagers who have fled to the bush remains our priority” Following an evaluation mission conducted in the far northwest of the Central African Republic in August, Médecins Sans Frontières plans to open a medical-nutritional project at Bocaranga. In addition to the armed conflict...	09/10/2007	Central African Republic
	Zimbabwe: Beyond Cholera - Beyond the Crisis? In February 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières released the report “Beyond Cholera: Zimbabwe’s Worsening Crisis” to alert to the humanitarian crisis ravaging Zimbabwe, most visibly expressed by the unprecedented cholera outbreak,...	18/08/2009	Zimbabwe
	Zambia: Médecins Sans Frontières responds to worst cholera outbreak in years In Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, Médecins Sans Frontières is responding to the worst cholera outbreak in the country for many years. Over the last five weeks the number of cholera cases has risen dramatically to more than...	12/04/2010	Zambia