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 ...
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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 ...
I am a doctor in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, hearing gunfire as armed groups and police battle for control of our city. This kind of fighting began several years ago, but in recent weeks it has become increasingly violent, like a war. On Feb. 28, it was announced that elections could be postponed until August 2025. [...]Read More... from Haiti: How violence is affecting health and health care workers| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
The violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has seen a new and dramatic increase since Feb. 28 2024, with armed groups attacking new parts of the city. This surge in conflict, occurring frequently in residential zones, has deeply affected the community and has seriously disrupted the healthcare system, which is struggling to remain functional. At Doctors Without [...]Read More... from Haiti: Healthcare Navigates New Heights of Conflict in Port-au-Prince| 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 ...
Since the end of February, Port-au-Prince has been engulfed in unprecedented violence, cutting off the Haitian capital from the outside world following the closure of the airport and ports. The escalating insecurity has severely disrupted the medical operations of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which has not been able to import any supplies since [...]Read More... from Closed ports, empty shelves: Haiti urgently needs medical supplies| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
