Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is the world's leading independent international medical relief organization, implementing and managing medical projects in close to 72 countries worldwide and as a worldwide movement of 25 associations, 24 sections, 17 offices and 6 operational entities. Our work focuses on emergency medical and humanitarian relief. We are guided by the principles of independence, neutrality and impartiality, as described in the MSF Charter. We implement our medical programs in areas where no health or sanitary systems exist, or where health structures are overwhelmed by the needs of populations. For 50 years, we have been providing medical assistance to people affected by armed conflicts, natural disasters, disease epidemics, malnutrition crises and other emergencies. We offer medical and humanitarian assistance to people based on their needs - irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. We observe neutrality in situations of conflict, and impartiality in the name of medical ethics. To ensure our independence, the majority of our funding is provided by private donations from members of the public. Additional funding may come from foundations, governments and international institutions.
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MSF has lost contact with Dr. Mohammed Obeid, an orthopedic surgeon working at Kamal Adwan Hospital amid intense Israeli military operations. We are urgently seeking information about his whereabouts, and call for his safety and protection, as well as for all medical staff in Gaza.
We denounce in the strongest possible terms the killing of our colleague, Hasan Suboh, on October 24 at night during Israeli military operations in Khan Younis, South Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health, at least 33 people, including 14 children, were killed in this attack. Hasan joined MSF in 2019 as a skilled laborer, and was married with seven children. He was 41 years old. Our thoughts are with his family and loved ones, and with our colleagues in Gaza. He is our eighth colleague killed in Gaza since October 2023 – and the second in two weeks. Through its war on Gaza, Israel continues to show a fundamental disregard for civilian lives. This must stop now. https://lnkd.in/e4UN28XU
🔴 More attention is needed on northern Gaza. Yesterday, we received these messages from our colleague Dr. Mohammed Obeid while he was sheltering in Kamal Adwan hospital. In recent days, Israeli forces have targeted the last remaining hospitals in the north, including the Indonesian, Al-Awda, and Kamal Adwan hospitals. Israeli forces need to immediately stop attacking health facilities, cease the all-out war on the people of Gaza, and allow for the evacuation of people in need of vital care. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/djjj9KsP
🔴 In Lebanon, there is a serious need to provide mental health support to patients feeling overwhelmed and traumatized by the constant threat of violence. Expressing deep concerns about the future in an unstable environment, we're responding by providing primary and mental health care to displaced people, including psychological first aid and psychoeducation through our mobile medical units across the country. We also launched a helpline to provide mental health support to people unable to access in person care. Many of the helpline callers have been parents facing difficulty trying to help their children cope during the war. Our helpline psychologists equip parents with strategies to communicate honestly and create safe spaces for their children to express their feelings. https://lnkd.in/eM5jqJJn
Serious gaps in access to health care are deeply affecting communities in Pakistan. Reaching medical facilities can often be costly for families with low incomes, in addition to affording treatment. To help bridge the gap, we're supporting the maternity wards at the MSF-run Kuchlak Medical Center and at the District Headquarters Hospital in Chaman. Hear from some of our patients who received care at these facilities and their families. https://lnkd.in/dnQ8AGfF
It’s #TimeFor5. Here is a recap of yesterday’s action in Washington D.C. Danaher Corporation refused to accept our petition demanding they stop profiteering and, instead, drop the price of lifesaving medical tests to $5. They will be getting the petition in the mail, along with the signatures of the more than 200,000 people who signed it. Our research shows that Cepheid and its parent company Danaher Corporation could sell these tests at a profit for just $5 each, but they are still charging two and three times that in the world’s poorest countries. We want to make sure all these voices are heard. #PeopleOverProfits https://lnkd.in/gtGFz2RR
206,937 people have spoken up, demanding that Danaher Corporation and Cepheid STOP the profiteering on lifesaving tests for #TB, #HIV, #hepatitis & more. Today, alongside other global health activists, we went to deliver these petition signatures to Danaher's doorstep, but they refused to accept them. 🤷🏽♀️ We are asking them to: 🎯Stop ignoring the global calls for price reduction for ALL GeneXpert tests. 🎯Come clean about the cost of producing their tests by FINALLY carrying out the independent third-party audit. Cepheid and Danaher Corporation, do the right thing, listen and act NOW! It's #TimeFor5 https://lnkd.in/e-6ZkCit
Reflecting on our colleagues in Gaza: “They’re my personal heroes.” ICYMI, earlier this week Dr. Alayyan, pediatrician and medical program manager for MSF in Palestine, Afghanistan, and Haiti, spoke with Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim, emergency physician and former medical team leader in Gaza, and MSF CEO Avril Benoît about the catastrophic health impacts of the war in Gaza. For over a year, our colleagues in Gaza have been providing care as best we can to meet patients’ needs, all while having to cope with their own personal stress from the impacts of war: “[Working] is part of their coping mechanism. This ‘I can't take a break, I can't stop because then I have to realize exactly what's happened to my family and to my home.’ So working is a way of surviving. We try our best to help [patients], but the needs are just so great.”
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Gaza: Medical care under fire: We invite you to join us for a live online event on Tuesday, October 15, at 1:00 pm ET, with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) aid workers reflecting on the catastrophic health impacts of the war in Gaza. MSF teams were already active providing medical care in Gaza when conflict escalated following the horrific attacks by Hamas on Israel on October 7. In response, the Israeli government launched a ferocious military offensive on Gaza. More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed, tens of thousands more have been injured, and some 1.9 million people have been displaced–often multiple times. Much of the Gaza Strip has been reduced to rubble. MSF staff are providing urgent medical care even while facing the personal impacts of the war themselves–the deaths of loved ones, destruction of their homes, and constant dangers everywhere. Hospitals and health facilities have repeatedly come under fire or been forced to evacuate. The medical needs are exploding, including the spread of infectious diseases and the risk of starvation. Join us for a conversation with Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim, emergency physician and former medical team leader in Gaza, and Dr. Amber Alayyan, pediatrician and medical program manager for MSF in Pales