DRC: MSF treats 20 people after deadly attack in Kasai region
Press releaseDRC: MSF treats 20 people after deadly attack in Kasai regionMay 25, 2018KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO/BARCELONA —Teams from the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treated 20 injured people, including seven children, after a deadly attack in a village in the Kasai region of theDemocratic Republic of Congo (DRC).Armed militiamen stormed the village of Matopolo on the night of May 20, killing at least 12 people, according to official sources. MSF teams treated survivors at a hospital in Kakenge, about 10 kilometers [six miles] away. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - May 25, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tim Shenk Source Type: news
Libya: Dozens of refugees and migrants wounded after escaping horrific captivity
Press releaseLibya: Dozens of refugees and migrants wounded after escaping horrific captivityMay 25, 2018PARIS/NEW YORK —Dozens of refugees and migrants held captive by human traffickers inLibya were shot and wounded while escaping during the night of May 23, resulting in numerous deaths and injuries, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - May 25, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elias Primoff Source Type: news
Bangladesh: Update on activities in Cox ’s Bazar
Field newsBangladesh: Update on activities in Cox ’s BazarMay 25, 2018Since August 25, 2017, more than 693,000Rohingya refugees have crossed the border from Myanmar intoBangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, fleeing a campaign of targeted violence by Myanmar’s military in Rakhine state. Combined with the Rohingya refugees already living in Bangladesh after fleeing previous outbreaks of violence, there are now more than 905,000 refugees in the sprawling Cox’s Bazar camps. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - May 25, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elias Primoff Source Type: news
MSF Welcomes Adoption of World Health Assembly Resolution to Tackle Snakebite Crisis
Press releaseMSF Welcomes Adoption of World Health Assembly Resolution to Tackle Snakebite CrisisMay 24, 2018NEW YORK/GENEVA, May 24, 2018—Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) made the following statement after the adoption of a resolution on “Addressing the burden of snakebite envenoming” during the 71st World Health Assembly today. This resolution—adopted by 194 countries—is expected to provide a stro ng mandate for the World Health Organization to implement an ambitious snakebite “roadmap,” mobilizing governments and donors to respond to snakebite with the urgency and attention this n...
Source: MSF News - May 24, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Brienne Prusak Source Type: news
Sudan: "Violence is never far away" for People Stranded in North Darfur's Sortoni Camp
Field newsSudan:"Violence is never far away" for People Stranded in North Darfur's Sortoni CampMay 24, 2018In early 2016fighting erupted in Jebel Marra, Darfur, forcing nearly 160,000 people to flee in search of safety. Over 23,000 of them settled around the small village of Sortoni in what became a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs). Years later, despite the difficulties of living in a camp, many are still reluctant to return home. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - May 24, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jess Brown Source Type: news
Wired: An Ebola Vaccine Gets Its First Real-World Test
In the NewsWired: An Ebola Vaccine Gets Its First Real-World TestMay 24, 2018Micaela Serafini, medical director of Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Switzerland, discusses the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the new vaccine that is being used.View External Media. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - May 24, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Press Intern Source Type: news
WEBCAST: What ’s So Scary About the Global Gag Rule?
June 06, 2018Join our panel of experts from MSF and Marie Stopes International on June 6 for a discussion on the impact of the new Global Gag Rule. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - May 24, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nick Bayer Source Type: news
