Latest Doctors Without Borders News

Spiraling violence and airline shutdowns in Haiti cut families off from adoptive kids

Nov. 14, 2024 07:00 AM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The last words Michelle Reed heard from her 6-year-old adopted son, Esai Reed, in early November were: “Mom, come get me.” But after U.S. aviation authorities on Tuesday blocked airlines from traveling to Haiti for 30 days following the shooting of a number...

Tuberculosis infected 8 million people last year, the most WHO has ever tracked

Oct. 30, 2024 02:22 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track. About 1.25 million people died of TB last year, the new report said, adding...

Years of war in Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. But little support is available

Oct. 16, 2024 09:10 AM EDT

GOMA, Congo (AP) — For Nelly Shukuru, there was no way out. The fighting that forced her from her home, the squalid conditions in the displacement camp in eastern Congo, the hunger, all felt inescapable. The 51-year-old planned to hang herself. She said a neighbor stopped her just...

Sepsis and malnutrition stalk the new mothers and babies of South Darfur

Sep. 24, 2024 18:03 PM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — Mothers and children in the Sudanese region of South Darfur are experiencing one of the “worst” health emergencies in the world, humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday, one of the consequences of the violence that has engulfed the country since April 2023....

Doctors Without Borders closes operations in Russia

Sep. 17, 2024 10:47 AM EDT

GENEVA (AP) — Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday it has closed its operations in Russia after 32 years, citing a Justice Ministry letter that said the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations. The aid group, also known by its...

A dam collapse in eastern Sudan kills at least 30 people following heavy rains, a UN agency says

Aug. 27, 2024 07:36 AM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — The collapse of the Arbaat Dam in Sudan’s eastern Red Sea state over the weekend flooded nearby homes and killed at least 30 people following heavy rains, a U.N. agency said. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said late Monday, citing...