Posts in Haiti

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has officially opened a new emergency trauma, orthopaedic and visceral surgery referral centre in the Tabarre...

One year since the start of the ongoing cholera epidemic in Haiti, people all over the country are still threatened by the deadly disease.

On August 18, medical aid organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) officially inaugurated its new specialized emergency obstetric care hospital...

Why have at least 2,500 people died of cholera when there are about 12,000 NGOs in the country?

Since October 22, 2010, MSF has treated 62,000 people with cholera symptoms in Haiti.

On November 5, an MSF emergency team travelled to Cap Haïtien, the country's second-largest city (325,000 residents), located in the north.

Critical shortfalls in the response to the cholera epidemic are undermining efforts to stem the ongoing crisis.  Despite the huge presence of...

As the people of Haiti face a massive cholera epidemic, MSF calls for the emergency response to be urgently scaled-up.

Over the past three days, MSF medical teams supporting Haitian Ministry of Public Health facilities and working in their own independent medical...

Since 22nd October, MSF medical teams have treated close to 3,600 people who presented to medical facilities with acute or severe cases of...

Some people suffering from watery diarrhea are being treated at existing
MSF facilities in the capital city. At this stage, cholera infection...

Six months after the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors...

On January 12, a magnitude 7.0 quake...

Four months after Haiti's devastating earthquake, the MSF teams continue to adjust their activities to meet the changing, but still major, medical...

Three months after the earthquake which devastated Haiti on January 12, killing over 200,000 people, MSF is continuing to respond to both the...

Paul McMaster has just returned from Haiti, where he was a surgeon as part of MSF's emergency team.

Colette Gadenne, who has been managing MSF activities in Haiti over the last few weeks, and Christopher Stokes, General Director of MSF...

Jean-Rosemay, who is barely 14. This was the last day of her life as she knew it but only the first of the two she spent under her family’s...

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One month after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, the numbers are still difficult to digest: more than 200,000 deaths, 300,000...

One of the emerging trends in MSF's medical work in Haiti is a return to prominence of what could be described as normal illnessess and...

MSF's emergency wards in Haiti are still treating large numbers of patients but the nature of their injuries is gradually changing.

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The core medical activities in Haiti are still concentrated on treating people who were injured in the quake, with surgery continuing and post...

Haitian surgeon Dr. Philippe Brouard has worked with MSF at Trinité hospital in Port-au-Prince since 2006.

The MSF teams in Port au Prince and beyond are still mainly occupied with...

Six days after the earthquake, international support is slowly appearing in Port-au-Prince and Haiti, but most of the...

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Médecins Sans Frontières cargo plane with full hospital and staff blocked from landing in Port-au-PrinceMSF demands deployment...

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The MSF medical teams in Port-au-Prince have been treating very large numbers of people who come to them with fractures, head injuries and other...

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