Doctors Without Borders

As Doctors Without Borders reach Kyiv, a look at the organisation and how they help in conflict zones

An emergency response team of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international humanitarian organisation, has reached Kyiv and has been helping with medical supplies

Syrians risk suffocation, respiratory diseases to stay warm as brutal winter hits camps

Last month, Doctors Without Borders warned that unsafe heating methods are putting people at higher risk of contracting respiratory diseases and complications related to smoke inhalation

Global efforts to slow down the coronavirus are inadvertently accelerating the spread of other diseases

As poor countries around the world struggle to beat back the coronavirus, they are unintentionally contributing to fresh explosions of illness and death from other diseases — ones that are readily prevented by vaccines

Health groups urges govt to rescind Gilead's patents for COVID-19 drug remdesivir; say move to ensure fair distribution

The aid group Doctors Without Borders has also opposed Gilead’s patents on remdesivir, saying such licensing pacts are “not acceptable” amid a global health emergency.

Coronavirus Outbreak: From Syria to Bangladesh, cramped living conditions, inadequate health and testing facilities stoke fears in refugee camps

Western countries, which may contain their own coronavirus outbreaks, will have to reckon with the fact that if the virus finds refuge among the world's most vulnerable, it could return anytime.

International human rights bodies urge Australia to impose sanctions, end military ties with Myanmar over Rohingya genocide

The four organisations urged Australia to support the international call to refer the Rohingya case to the International Criminal Court.

Over 100 migrants drowned off Libya's coast in early September, says Doctors Without Borders report; survivors suffer fuel burns

More than 100 migrants, including at least 20 children, died when two boats sank off the coast of Libya earlier this month, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), citing survivors.

In Bangladesh, Rohingya refugees mark first anniversary of 'ethnic cleansing' in Myanmar's Rakhine with songs, prayers

Rohingya refugees on Saturday marked the anniversary of a deadly military crackdown in their Myanmar homeland that drove 700,000 of the persecuted minority into Bangladesh, stateless and confronting a grim future.

Doctors Without Borders workers accused of 'prostitutes in exchange for medicines in Africa' remarks

Médecins Sans Frontières or Doctors Without Borders workers are accused of asking for sexual favours from prostitutes in Africa, in exchange for medicines

Sea convoy with migrants rescued from Mediterranean Sea reaches Spain as migration debate hots up in Europe

An aid group's ship and two Italian military vessels docked Sunday at the Spanish port of Valencia, ending a weeklong ordeal for hundreds of people who were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea only to become pawns in a European political fight over migration