Below you find all the MSF news articles published on this website.
If you are looking for a particular topic, please also feel free to use the search box to your right.
Results:
Press release - Condition: Critical - Voices from the war in eastern Congo
Date: 20/11/2008
The war in DRC has shaped the lives of everyone in the region. Their daily routine has become one of survival amidst violence. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), one of the few humanitarian organisations still working in the most violent areas of the region, is sounding the alarm with the international campaign Condition: Critical.
Find out more
Voices from Congo (DRC) - Condition: Critical launched
Date: 20/11/2008
The people of Congo (DRC) are caught up in a 15 year war that is still raging around them. They have little or no food and water, only the clothes they stand in and only what they carry on their backs. Today, MSF launches the Condition: Critical project, telling their stories through words, images and video.
Find out more
Another victim of Congo's war (DRC)
Date: 14/11/2008
"When J. arrived at the hospital, he was in really bad shape, explains François, the MSF head of the surgical ward. He had lost a lot of blood, was unconscious and needed an operation right away. The surgeons tried to save his arm or part of his arm but it wasn't possible. The bone was too damaged to be saved."
Find out more
Cholera grips Zimbabwe capital
Date: 14/11/2008
There are so many patients that the nurses are overwhelmed. In the observation area one girl died sitting on a bench. The staff is utilising each and every available room and still in the observation area patients are lying on the floor.
Find out more
Pakistan earthquake update
Date: 13/11/2008
The earthquake, which shook the Balochistan region of Pakistan two weeks ago, continues to cause serious consequences in local communities.
Find out more
Lesotho: Community diaries from St. Rodrigue
Date: 10/11/2008
Online diaries of seven people from the St. Rodrigue community in Lesotho, where MSF runs an HIV programme. See them now at BBC online.
Find out more
MSF treats school collapse victims, Haiti
Date: 10/11/2008
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, are providing emergency care and treatment to people injured in the collapse of La Promesse School in the Petionville neighborhood of the city earlier today.
Find out more
A frightened population in Pakistan
Date: 07/11/2008
It is not only the physical, but also the psychological consequences that is taking its toll on people, following the earthquake in Pakistan’s mountainous Ziarat region.
Find out more
AUDIO: Reality of the conflict for those forced to flee
Date: 07/11/2008
Annie Desilets, MSF project coordinator in Kitchanga, North Kivu, talks about the reality of the conflict for those people repeatedly displaced by fighting in Congo (DRC).
Find out more
Darfur suspension withdrawn, but MSF told to close mental health programmes
Date: 07/11/2008
Since 2006, MSF’s trained staff has provided 9380 individual counseling sessions for over 1600 patients suffering from mental health problems, but as of the new year, MSF is forced to close this programme.
Find out more
VIDEO: Congo's critical humanitarian situation (DRC)
Date: 06/11/2008
MSF video explaining the severity of the humanitarian siutation in North Kivu as violence spreads and even the camps for displaced people are no longer safe.
Find out more
Armed aid convoys inadequate bandage for Congo’s deep wounds
Date: 06/11/2008
Widely publicized armed convoys of relief assistance to Goma and Rutshuru are an inadequate response to the humanitarian crisis facing the DRC’s troubled North Kivu region, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Find out more