Measles
Press Release - 25 Apr 2017
DRC: Doctors Without Borders fights measles
Since November 2016, the international humanitarian organisation, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has vaccinated over 675,000 children, and cared for more than 14,000 patients in health zones throughout five of the country’s provinces: Maniema, South Kivu, Tanganyka, Ituri and Equateur.Press Release - 25 Apr 2017
Measles
- 25 Apr 2017
Measles epidemic in DRC
The DRC is currently experiencing several concurrent outbreaks of measles with epicenter in Maniema region.- 25 Apr 2017
Malawi Government considers introducing paying wards into district hospitals
Health advocates express their concern: as the Malawi Government considers introducing paying wards into district hospitalsPress Release - 24 Apr 2017
People trying to reach Europe through Libya are exposed to countless dangers and face arbitrary detention
Doctor Tankred Stoebe spent the month of January in the country coordinating a medical assessment that took him from Misrata to Tripoli. He told us what he saw.- 24 Apr 2017
Nigeria
Fieldworkers Stories - 21 Apr 2017
Phumelele Trasada: “We take time to understand before we act”
An anthropologist spent four months helping develop MSF’s medical interventions in Okpoko, a slum in the southeastern Nigerian city of OnitshaFieldworkers Stories - 21 Apr 2017
Nigeria
- 19 Apr 2017
Danca Paiva "The needs among internally displaced people are huge"
Population displacement continues in northeast Nigeria, due to military operations and Boko Haram attacks- 19 Apr 2017
Nigeria: Struggling to survive after losing everything
Thousands of displaced people in Borno rely on aid. They are not free to move outside towns and cannot sustain themselves- 19 Apr 2017
Violence and insecurity continue to force people from their homes in the northeast Nigeria
The people of northeast Nigeria are trapped in a deadly cycle of violencePress Release - 18 Apr 2017
Civilians pay the price of renewed, brutal fighting
In the past weeks MSF teams have witnessed summary executions and terror among civiliansPress Release - 14 Apr 2017
Nigeria
Fieldworkers Stories - 14 Apr 2017
Paul Holzweber: The non-medical ‘side effects’ of MSF’s work
A Johannesburg-based logistician recently spent three months at a nutrition project in Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria.Fieldworkers Stories - 14 Apr 2017