MSF/Médecins Sans Frontières [to 18 April 2015]
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Press releases
Yemen: MSF Receives 30 Wounded after Airstrikes on Huth
April 16, 2015
SANA’A, YEMEN—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated 30 people who were wounded last night in airstrikes in Huth district.
International Chagas Day: MSF begins work in Monteagudo in Chuquisaca, Bolivia
April 14, 2015
SUCRE, BOLIVIA/NEW YORK—Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is launching a new project to ensure that people can be diagnosed and treated for Chagas disease in the town of Monteagudo, in the Chuquisaca department of southern Bolivia. In partnership with local health care institutions, the international medical humanitarian organization will develop a comprehensive care model for primary and secondary care that will be integrated into the existing health care system.
Greece: Authorities Must Improve Conditions for Refugees in Dodecanese Islands
April 13, 2015
MSF team witnesses unprecedented influx, warns that contingency plan is need for summer peak.
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Field News
Italy: MSF Assists Migrants and Refugees in Sicily
April 17, 2015
A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team is offering medical assistance to 301 migrants and refugees who arrived this morning at the first reception center in Pozzallo, Sicily. They are the latest group of arrivals.
Mali: MSF Assists Five Children Injured in Suicide Attack Near Ansongo
April 17, 2015
On Wednesday, a suicide bomber attacked a United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) camp on the outskirts of Ansongo town. Three civilians—two children and one adult—were killed, and 16 were wounded, most of them UN peacekeepers. An MSF team was immediately deployed to the area, sending five wounded children to the Ansongo referral hospital, where the organization has been working since 2012.
Kenya: Somali Refugees Must Not Be Forcibly Returned from Dadaab
April 16, 2015
NAIROBI/GENEVA—Calls by Kenyan officials to close a sprawling refugee camp in northeastern Kenya housing hundreds of thousands of people from Somalia will have dramatic and life-threatening consequences, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today.
South Sudan: One Year After Mass Killings in Bentiu, Violence and Displacement Continue
April 15, 2015
A year after the mass killings of civilians, including patients in the hospital where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was running an HIV/Tuberculosis (TB) project, in Bentiu, South Sudan, violence and displacement have continued, impeding access to basic health care and food.
CAR: MSF Begins Emergency Intervention in Kouango
April 14, 2015
MSF is responding to widespread violence, displacement, and lack of health care in CAR’s southern Kouango region.