In Haiti, accessing maternal healthcare is a challenge, especially during the rainy season. With impassable roads and limited facilities, pregnant women must travel long distances to give birth safely. Learn about the difficulties they face and the work of MSF work to improve their healthcare access.| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Following the targeted attack on March 15 against a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) convoy travelling between its Turgeau emergency centre and its Carrefour trauma hospital and in view of the deteriorating security situation in downtown Port-au-Prince, MSF has taken the difficult decision to withdraw from these two structures for a minimum period of [...]Read More... from Haiti: MSF withdraws from two medical facilities in Port-au-Prince as widespread violence intensi...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns an attack on its vehicles amid escalating violence in Haiti. Forced to suspend operations at Turgeau hospital, in Port-au-Prince, MSF calls for respect and safety for medical workers, patients and facilities. Despite challenges, MSF remains committed to delivering essential care.| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Violence escalates in Port-au-Prince as armed groups expand their control. MSF’s Tabarre trauma hospital, one of the last in the capital, faces overwhelming patient numbers, risking further crisis. With medical teams exhausted and hospital beds beyond capacity, people’s access to surgical care is dangerously reduced.| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Géralda, Alcélia, and Cherlyne, three Haitian women, share their struggle to survive in Brooklyn, an isolated part of Cité Soleil neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are the only ones providing free medical care in the area on a daily basis. Cité Soleil : Life under constant threat of crossfire Géralda describes [...]Read More... from Haiti: Women trapped between violence and poverty in Port-au-Prince| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
As violence and insecurity forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in Port-au-Prince in recent months, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) increased efforts to provide water, sanitation, and hygiene services (WASH) to people in makeshift camps across the city. Since fighting between armed groups and the government surged in February 2024, [...]Read More... from Haiti: People fleeing violence in capital urgently need water and sanitation| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
On Tuesday, September 3, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance carrying a patient in critical condition was stopped by police in Port-au-Prince and detained, preventing our team from providing the necessary care. The patient was suffering from an open fracture and in urgent need of hospital care. Held for more than an hour, [...]Read More... from Haiti: MSF denounces obstruction of ambulance| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Since Feb 24, Haiti’s capital has seen a surge in violence, with MSF staff seeing overwhelming medical needs and rising casualties. With 85 per cent of Port-au-Prince under armed control, clashes endanger civilians. People in displacement camps lack clean water, escalating the humanitarian crisis. Critical support is needed to address worsening conditions.| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Haiti’s capital urgently need vital services such as safe shelters, mental health support and medical care, as rapes and other assaults have become widespread during violence and insecurity in the city in recent years. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has provided comprehensive medical and psychological care to [...]Read More... from Haiti: A call to support survivors of sexual violence| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is partially resuming its medical activities in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area after a 22-day suspension due to repeated threats and violence against its staff and patients. The decision to suspend MSF’s activities, even temporarily, was extremely difficult because the city is heavily affected by violence, and the medical needs [...]Read More... from Haiti: MSF Partially Resumes Medical Activities in Port-au-Prince| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
A series of threats by police forces against Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff have forced the organization to suspend its activities until further notice in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. Police officers have stopped MSF vehicles multiple times and directly threatened MSF staff members, including death and rape threats, in the week following [...]Read More... from Haiti: Violence and threats by police force MSF to suspend activities in Port-au-Prince me...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest terms the killing of at least two patients who were executed after an MSF ambulance was stopped by members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers. On November 11, an MSF ambulance transporting three young people with gunshot wounds was stopped by Haitian police [...]Read More... from Haiti: MSF outraged by attack on its ambulance by law enforcement and execution of patients| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
