MSF

Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is horrified by the killing of two MSF doctors, Dr Mahmoud Abu Nujaila and Dr Ahmad Al Sahar, and a third doctor working with Al Awda, Dr. Ziad Al-Tatari, following...

International medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has organized a webinar for the first time in Bangladesh, on the impact of mental health on women and children of COVID-19. The webinar was broadcast live...

The international medical organization Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF) is launching COVID-19 isolation and medical center at the Nayapara refugee camp in Teknaf Upazila of Cox’s Bazar Sunday (26 July). The opening of the Severe Acute Respiratory...

August 2017 marked the start of more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar for safety in Bangladesh, joining those who had fled the country previously. Today, nearly one million Rohingya refugees live in camps and makeshift settlements across Cox’s Bazar. ...

One year since over 700,000 Rohingya refugees were forced to flee from Myanmar into Bangladesh, the denial of their legal status, coupled with unacceptable living conditions in haphazard makeshift camps, continues to trap refugees in a...

Independent humanitarian agencies remain largely blocked from accessing vulnerable communities in northern Rakhine, raising major concerns about unmet medical and humanitarian needs. On 11 August 2017, two weeks prior to attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation...

With the last major outbreak happening decades ago, most MSF staff had only ever seen diphtheria in textbooks. MSF medical team leader Carla Pla describes the challenges of treating the disease amongst the refugee settlements of southeastern Bangladesh. MSF has treated more than 4,280 people for diphtheria in the Cox’s Bazar district as of 31 January,...

News Hour: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hosted a symposium on sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) on the 27 July at the Six Seasons Hotel of Gulshan-2, in Dhaka. The symposium aimed to create...

News Hour: Oxfam, CARE, Handicap International, Mercy Corps, Intersos and Save the Children condemn the Saudi-led coalition airstrike today on a hospital supported by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in Abs, in Hajja governorate. The six agencies...

News Hour: The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced that it will no longer accept funds from the European Union and its member states, in opposition to their damaging migration deterrence...