Democratic Republic of Congo / 04.02.09
4 February 2009– Tens of burned villages; hundreds civilians stabbed or clubbed to death; men, women and children abducted. The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continues to unleash violence against the people of Haut-Uélé. The...
Niger / 25.01.09
New York – According to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), children in rural Niger who received ready-to-use food in addition to their normal diet, were nearly 60 percent less...
23.01.09
Madrid – If next week’s Madrid Food Summit does not come up with a concrete implementation and funding plan focused on malnutrition, 55 million children under five will continue to face potential life-threatening malnutrition...
Palestinian Territories / 15.01.09
Daily Pause in Violence Insufficient; Other Crossing Points Blocked and Civilians Remain Trapped
Palestinian Territories / 08.01.09
The military offensive in the Gaza Strip is affecting civilians indiscriminately, while medical teams continue to face serious obstacles to providing assistance, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans...
Sudan / 18.12.08
CHRISTMAS TV SPECIAL - South Sudan: A Breath of Life is a special investigative report by SKY NEWS that follows a Médecins Sans Frontières team working in a hospital in the isolated town of Aweil in South Sudan. The project...
01.12.08
An estimated 1.9 million children are in need of antiretroviral treatment but only around 200,000 are able to get the medicines they need. Médecins Sans Frontières calls on governments and donors to roll out existing tests faster...
Myanmar (Burma) / 25.11.08
Thousands of people are needlessly dying due to a severe lack of lifesaving HIV/AIDS treatment in Myanmar, says international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières in a report released today. Unable to continue...
12.11.08
New analysis from international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières shows how the European Commission is failing to pay its fair share towards discovering and developing new tuberculosis (TB) vaccines,...
Haiti / 07.11.08
Médecins Sans Frontières’ medical teams are struggling to provide free quality emergency care to pregnant women and their babies in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the last month, hundreds of women have desperately sought emergency...