[Press Release] Bahrain: Detained MSF Staff Member Released

BRUSSELS, JUNE 14, 2011 — A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member detained for weeks in Bahrain was released uncharged on June 11.

Saeed Mahdi was arrested in Bahrain on May 6, 2011. Neither his law…

[Podcast] Outside Humanitarian Spotlight, Central African Republic Is Dogged by Conflict

In Central African Republic, one million people are estimated to be affected by the ongoing violence. Particularly since 2008, families have been repeatedly displaced from their villages, forced to flee into the bush, where they remain trapped and un…

Japan: MSF Supports Construction and Rehabilitation of Temporary Clinics

Japan 2011 © Yozo Kawabe/MSF

MSF staff supervise a team of local evacuees constructing a temporary shelter outside an overcrowded evacuation center near Minami Sanriku in May.

Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Fronti…

[Voice from the Field] Kenya: "Health Indicators Are Now At An Emergency Level" in Dadaab

Kenya 2011 © Natasha Lewer/MSF

Dr. Gedi Mohamed

Dr. Gedi Mohamed is director of the general hospital at Dagahaley refugee camp, near Dadaab in northeastern Kenya. He is the first Kenyan Somali doctor to work in the camp since Doctors…

Libya: MSF Expands Its Support As The Fighting Continues

Tunisia 2011 © Mattia Insolera

MSF staff carries out a consultation with a refugee at a camp just inside the Tunisian border.

The conflict continues in Libya, where, generally speaking, the insurgency controls the east while pro-Gadd…

[Press Release] Target Of 15 Million People On HIV Treatment By 2015 Secured At AIDS Summit

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Getting Ahead of the Wave

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My Life With HIV

Six years ago, MSF gave cameras to patients in our HIV clinic in Kenya so to document their lives for a project called My Life With HIV. Now, we've been back to v…

Kenya: Fleeing Somalis Struggle To Find Shelter At The World’s Largest Refugee Camp

Kenya 2011 © Nenna Arnold/MSF

A newly arrived family of refugees from Somalia stand outside their shelter, near Dagahaley refugee camp, Dadaab, Kenya.

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[Slideshow] Dadaab, Kenya: Somali Refugees With Nowhere to Go

The three refugee camps run by the office of the United Nations High Commissoner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Dadaab, Kenya, 50 miles from Somalia, are full. But more and more people arrive here every day. An extension to one of the camps could provide a …

[Voice from the Field] �The Attackers Came to Find Us�: Testimonies from Ivory Coast and Liberia

Liberia 2011 © Chris de Bode / Panos Pictures
An Ivorian refugee from Toulepleu in western Ivory Coast, building his home in a host village across the border in Liberia.

IVORY COAST:

1. Boy, 17, village near Pehé, western Ivory Coast. Ma…

[Video] HIV/AIDS: A Call for Treatment

[Podcast] HIV Treatment is Also HIV Prevention

New research has proved conclusively that treatment of HIV can reduce the transmission of the disease from one person to another by 96 percent. In other words, HIV treatment is also HIV prevention. The UN Summit on HIV/AIDS starts on June 8 and offic…

Ivory Coast: Fear Persists Even After Violence Subsides

Liberia 2011 © Chris de Bode / Panos Pictures

An MSF mobile clinic in Liberia for people who fled the fighting in Ivory Coast.

The situation in Ivory Coast remains volatile in the west following the post-election violence that wracke…

USA, Alcool: interagisce sulle proteine del cervello, come le droghe

L’alcol interagisce con le proteine cerebrali grazie alla presenza di specifici aminoacidi nella loro struttura, in modo analogo a quanto fanno le droghe: a giungere a questa conclusione sono gli esperti riuniti al congresso annuale della Research Society on Alcoholism a San Antonio (Stati Uniti). Per anni, spiegano i ricercatori, si e’ pensato che l’alcol [...]