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Aid woefully inadequate for returnees stuck in deplorable conditions in Renk
International medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urgently calling for an improved medical and humanitarian response for people fleeing conflict in Sudan and entering South Sudan through Renk, a town located in the northernmost state of Upper Nile.
MSF offers mental health support to people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh
On Thursday 28 September, a medical team from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) began receiving patients at the registration centre in Goris, in Syunik province, southern Armenia. Two psychologists have provided mental health consultations and psychological first aid to over 200 people in just a few days.
Press releases10/5/2023
Tuberculosis: an essential drug finally available at an affordable price
On 29 September, Johnson & Johnson announced that it was abandoning a patent on an essential and innovative drug in the fight against tuberculosis, a move that had been called for by numerous associations fighting the disease.This decision paves the way for the production of generics that will enable treatments to be obtained at lower cost. This promises to be a major step forward in the fight against tuberculosis, which kills more than one and a half million people every year.
Belgorod: supporting people displaced by violence
“The shell hit the yard and destroyed everything,” says Gevork. “It was like I was in a movie about the apocalypse.”
Testimonies10/3/2023
Treating the invisible wounds as people rebuild their lives
Fouzia Bara is a French-Moroccan nurse with previous experience in psychological first aid (PFA). She has just returned from Morocco after two weeks as part of the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) emergency response team. She provided first psychological aid to the people in the most impacted villages. During her work in Morocco, Fouzia met with more than 150 people, in group sessions or on an individual basis, mostly with women, children and young volunteers.
10/3/2023
Three weeks after the earthquake, MSF focuses on mental health response to offer psychological care to people
On September. 8, 2023, a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Morocco, killing 2,862 and leaving around 6,000 people injured .The earthquake mainly hit the rural area of the High Atlas Mountains, where there were landslides, collapses and paths were cut or difficult to use. In this region, access to remote and rural villages already difficult to reach has been further affected by the earthquake.
White Nile, Sudan: “The scale of the needs here is overwhelming and aid falls short of needs"
MSF health promoter Aisha is working in the three camps in the White Nile region, Sudan, supporting communities of internally displaced people and refugees.
Masisi: a land of contrasts between wealth and poverty
"When we think of eastern Congo, we are tempted to think of its many resources: cobalt, copper and vast arable land. This wealth contrasts with the reality in the east, which includes miles of roads lined with makeshift tents, child malnutrition, child soldiers and rape as a weapon of war."
"Six days adrift": Rescue of a boat full of teenagers in the Mediterranean Sea
With a dearth of safe, legal options for people seeking to reach Europe, the Mediterranean has become one of the world’s most dangerous sea borders. Currently on board the Geo Barents, the MSF search and rescue vessel seeking to save lives at sea, Stefan Pejović shares this account.