Press releasesChad faces twin emergencies of acute malnutrition and meningitis
Chad / 02.04.12
Berlin/N’Djamena, March 28, 2012: Severe acute malnutrition in parts of Chad’s Sahel belt has reached emergency levels and requires immediate life-saving intervention, according to the humanitarian agency Médecins Sans...
Multidrug-resistant TB: An emerging global crisis
Uzbekistan, South Africa, Myanmar (Burma), India / 21.03.12
Alarming new data suggest that the global scope of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is much more vast than previously estimated, requiring a concerted international effort to combat this deadlier form of the disease, the...
South Sudan: Window of opportunity closing fast to provide assistance to 80,000 Sudanese refugees from Blue Nile State
South Sudan / 15.03.12
Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees in South Sudan urgently need humanitarian aid to be scaled up in a short window of opportunity that is rapidly closing before the rainy season starts, warns the international medical...
Clarification: Médecins Sans Frontières not present in Sri Lanka battle zone
Sri Lanka / 01.03.12
Paris/Colombo - The medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is concerned about an interview suggesting that it was present in 2009 in Sri Lanka’s war zone and received surrendering militants to be treated.
Mauritania: Food insecurity threatens as thousands of Malian refugees gather in desert
Mali / 01.03.12
Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical and nutritional assistance for refugees and local people.
Maternal Death: The Avoidable Crisis
01.03.12
Médecins Sans Frontières highlights medical approaches to avert maternal deaths during humanitarian crises.
Afghanistan: Médecins Sans Frontières Treats Wounded After Kunduz Protests
Afghanistan / 27.02.12
Following violent protests over the reported Quran burnings at Bagram airbase, the international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières, received 50 patients at its surgical hospital in Kunduz province in...
Mali: One dead and 10 injured in an attack on a camp in Kidal region
Mali / 24.02.12
Victims are mostly women and children; Médecins Sans Frontières is calling on all parties to the conflict to spare civilians.
As Novartis shareholders meet, Médecins Sans Frontières urges company to drop court case in India
24.02.12
A Novartis win could severely restrict production of affordable medicines in India.
Médecins Sans Frontières calls for urgent action to save lives in Myanmar
Myanmar (Burma) / 22.02.12
22 February 2012 –In a report released today Médecins Sans Frontières, the largest provider of HIV treatment in Myanmar (1), highlights the critical need for increased HIV and tuberculosis (TB), including multidrug-resistant...