MSF returned to continue its medical care in Shamwana, Katanga province, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Saturday, after it suspended its operations two days earlier due to fighting in the town that displaced the entire population. Press Release - 6 Mar 2012

In March 2012, MSF opened a 56 bed maternity hospital in eastern Khost province. This hospital will provide pregnant women in the region with much needed access to quality maternal healthcare, in one of the most volatile provinces in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan

MSF opens maternity hospital in Khost

The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has opened a new maternity hospital in eastern Khost Province in Afghanistan, which will provide pregnant women in the region with desperately needed high-quality healthcare. Press Release - 5 Mar 2012

Afghanistan

MSF treats wounded after Kunduz protests

Following violent protests over the reported Quran burnings at Bagram airbase, MSF received 50 patients at its surgical hospital in Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan. Press Release - 26 Feb 2012

Mali

One dead and 10 injured in an attack on a camp in Kidal region

Victims are mostly women and children; MSF is calling on all parties to the conflict to spare civilians Press Release - 23 Feb 2012

Yemen

MSF treats 39 injured as violence affects the South of the country

On 21 February, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Aden and Al Daleh, in southern Yemen, tended to 39 people who had been injured during outbreaks of violence connected to national elections. A local separatist movement boycotted the vote, which led to clashes in the south, particularly in Aden, the region’s main city. Press Release - 23 Feb 2012

Access to medicines

MSF calls for urgent action to save lives in Myanmar

Between 15,000 and 20,000 people living with HIV die every year in Myanmar because of lack of access to lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy (ART). With political reform being reciprocated by greater engagement from the international community, there is a real opportunity to put access to treatment for people living with HIV and TB at the top of donor priority lists. Press Release - 22 Feb 2012

Lel Omar admitted in early October to the therapeutic feeding center at msf hospital in Dagahaley camp part of the sprawling refugee camp complex in Dadaab, Kenya. Lel's mother was also admitted to the hospital, leaving only his uncle to care for him. The family fled Kismayo in September 2011 for Dadaab.

Kenya

MSF launches new report: 'Dadaab: Back to square one'

MSF's new report entitled "Dadaab: Back to square one" takes stock of the current humanitarian situation and operational challenges in Dadaab, Kenya, home to the world’s largest refugee camp. The refugees in Dadaab – and others on their way – need more than ever the continuous support of the UNHCR, the Kenyan government and humanitarian organisations to be able to survive. Press Release - 16 Feb 2012

India

EU-India trade deal could cut medicines lifeline for people in developing countries

As India and the European Union meet for a Summit in New Delhi today to iron out the differences over a Free Trade Agreement, nearly two thousand people living with HIV and MSF protested in the streets of the Indian capital to warn that remaining harmful provisions in the agreement could have a severely negative impact on access to affordable medicine for people in developing countries. Press Release - 10 Feb 2012

Palestine

MSF concludes a physiotherapists training project on burn management

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) concluded a physiotherapists’ training project in partnership with the Gaza health authority. Press Release - 2 Feb 2012

Neglected diseases

Combating tropical diseases: What is still missing

The Gates Foundation-hosted conference held in London today, ‘Uniting To Combat Tropical Diseases’, draws attention to devastating tropical illnesses that have been neglected for too long. However, the ambitious goals to eliminate or control ten neglected tropical diseases will only be credible when some critical remaining gaps are filled, according to the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Press Release - 30 Jan 2012

Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.

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MSF staff Returns to Shamwana, Katanga, to resume medical care