Despite weeks of intense negotiations with Houthi officials, stocks of essential medical supplies cannot be delivered to two hospitals in a besieged enclave of the city of Taiz, in southern Yemen. Today MSF’s trucks have been stopped again at Houthi’s checkpoints and denied access to the area. Press Release - 25 Oct 2015

Iron roofing and rubble litter a corridor in the MSF Kunduz Trauma Centre as the facility lies destroyed following the 03 October aerial attack which killed 22 staff and patients in northern Afghanistan.

The bomb blasts were so strong that the corrugated iron roof caved in here in the blood laboratory corridor, and elsewhere in the hospital building.

Afghanistan

Death toll from the MSF hospital attack in Kunduz still rising

As of 23 October the revised figures now stand at 13 MSF staff dead and 1 MSF staff presumed dead, 10 patients dead and 2 patients presumed dead. Efforts are ongoing to determine the identities of seven other unrecognisable bodies found in the wreck of the hospital, all of whom have now been buried. These unfortunately may not be final numbers. Crisis Update - 23 Oct 2015

Nepal

6 months after the earthquake

Two earthquakes hit Nepal in April and May 2015, killing an estimated 8,500 people and injuring 20,000 more. MSF launched activities aimed at helping affected populations in need immediately the first earthquake struck. Crisis Update - 23 Oct 2015

Palestine

MSF attends five times more patients than in regular activities after peak in violence

Since 2 October, MSF teams haves provided mental health psycho-social services to around 521 patients with 40 group psycho-educations sessions at community level and 95 psychological first aid services. Project Update - 22 Oct 2015

Syria

Crisis Update - October 2015

What was an already dismal situation for millions trapped by conflict in Syria at the beginning of 2015 deteriorated further throughout the year, pushing hundreds of thousands of people to make the hard decision to make a dangerous and sometimes deadly crossing into Europe Crisis Update - 22 Oct 2015

Nigeria

MSF transforms faces and lives of patients suffering from noma

MSF has held its first surgical intervention in Nigeria for people with noma, a disfiguring and often deadly infection which mainly affects young children. In late August, 19 patients at the Noma Children's Hospital in Sokoto, northwestern Nigeria, underwent reconstructive surgery which will improve their health and their chances of re-entering society and living a normal life. Project Update - 22 Oct 2015

Papua New Guinea

How to reach patients in a ‘land without Land Cruisers’

PNG's Gulf Province is largely a land without Land Cruisers, the four-wheeled workhorses used by MSF operations across the world. So how do we access and treat patients in the tuberculosis programme that has been running since May 2014, and ensure that a population with a high burden of TB can receive treatment and follow-up care? Project Update - 22 Oct 2015

Mediterranean migration

In Calais, inhuman treatment of exiles

They have fled Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan and Eritrea and are living now in Calais, at the site known as “the Jungle.” Others are in Paris in an abandoned high school. Pauline Busson, MSF head of mission, describes these exiles’ living conditions, as they try to find a way to reach England or seek a future in France. Voices from the Field - 21 Oct 2015

Divan, newborn boy, lays on a belly of his mother Collins minutes after a successful delivery.

Mediterranean migration

Childbirth in the Mediterranean

On Sunday, 25-year-old Collins from Cameroon was rescued by the Dignity I, one of the MSF rescue ships in the Mediterranean. 240 people were rescued that morning. In the rubber boat she was travelling in, there were 120 people, with six children among them. She was nine months pregnant. Voices from the Field - 20 Oct 2015

Mediterranean migration

Up to 3,000 people stranded at the border between Serbia and Croatia without shelter

Around 3,000 people are stranded in no man’s land between the Serbian and Croatian border with no access to shelter or hygiene facilities. Project Update - 19 Oct 2015

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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Medical aid blocked from entering besieged area in Taiz

Death toll from the MSF hospital attack in Kunduz still rising

6 months after the earthquake

MSF attends five times more patients than in regular activities after peak in violence

Crisis Update - October 2015

MSF transforms faces and lives of patients suffering from noma

How to reach patients in a ‘land without Land Cruisers’

In Calais, inhuman treatment of exiles

Childbirth in the Mediterranean

Up to 3,000 people stranded at the border between Serbia and Croatia without shelter

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

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