A year in pictures 2019
December 25, 2019Trying to tell thousands of stories in just over 50 imagesAfter sifting through the more than 8,000 photos that we released over the last 12 months (November 2018 – November 2019), we’ve chosen the below series of simple, yet powerful...
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European leaders: Stop punishing asylum seekers on the Greek islands
November 27, 2019Open letter by Dr Christos Christou, International President, Médecins Sans Frontières Dear European leaders I have just come back from the Greek islands, and I was shocked by what I saw and by the accounts I heard from my colleagues...
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Delhi: Walk through MSF’s Umeed Ki Kiran clinic
November 25, 2019Meet Dr Yashoda Kurra. She works as a medical doctor at MSF’s Umeed Ki Kiran clinic in Jahangirpuri, Delhi. Umeed Ki Kiran is a 24X7 clinic where MSF teams provide free-of-cost quality medical and psychological care to survivors of sexual...
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Dr Christos Christou new International President of MSF
September 9, 2019Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes Dr Christos Christou as our new International President. Dr Christou was elected President during MSF’s International General Assembly in June 2019, and is starting his tenure in September. Born in Trikala, a small...
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Mediterranean migration: MSF resumes search and rescue amid deteriorating conditions in Libya
July 21, 2019Amsterdam – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announces the resumption of lifesaving search and rescue operations in the Central Mediterranean, and condemns the criminal inaction of European governments. The return to sea comes after a sustained two-year campaign by...
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UNAIDS update: High ongoing AIDS mortality reminds us that the fight against HIV is far from over
July 16, 2019Brussels / Geneva / Johannesburg - 770 000 people died of HIV worldwide in 2018. These are disturbing figures in the UNAIDS Global Aids Update 2019 released today in Eshowe, South Africa. Timely use of effective diagnostic tools and medicines to...
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Cameroon
February 12, 2019Since 2011, violent attacks by armed opposition groups and the counterinsurgency operations of the Nigerian army have forced hundreds of thousands of people from northeast Nigeria to seek refuge in Cameroon, Chad and Niger. During the past two years, violence...
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Top five stories from our Indian field workers in 2018
December 14, 2018From Jharkhand to Uttar Pradesh and Jordan to Bangladesh, our Indian field workers work with our teams to provide essential medical care to the those in need. We've compiled a list of the top five reads from our Indian field...
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People living with hepatitis C and HIV challenge evergreening patents on lifesaving hepatitis C drugs in India
July 10, 2018Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes two patent oppositions filed by Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+) before the Indian patent office, challenging additional patent claims by US pharmaceutical corporation-Gilead Sciences for the hepatitis C medicines sofosbuvir and velpatasvir....
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Jharkhand: “I was a teenage mother with the same story”
April 28, 2018Interview conducted and written by Kavitha Devadas for MSF In Jharkhand, an Indian state known for its diverse tribal communities, the number of people that are malnourished is persistently higher than the national average. Since June 2017, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins...
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Democratic Republic of Congo
February 1, 2018We respond to emergencies and assist people fleeing violence and armed conflict. In 2018, we responded to two Ebola outbreaks, in Equateur and North Kivu provinces respectively. We run some of our largest programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
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