Voices From The Field: Françoise in Les Cayes, Haiti
Last month Erika, our Projects Officer, and I travelled to Haiti to visit our USAID funded cholera response program in Les Cayes and to meet our teams working across the country. On our first day in Les Cayes we met Ti Pasteur, an inspiring community health educator on our Cholera Response Team who has been Read more.
An Interview with Françoise Sivignon – President of MdM France
Vulnerable refugees, aid organizations and European citizens alike are bearing the brunt of a lacking common response, says Doctors of the World/Médecins du Monde (MdM) France’s President Françoise Sivignon after a recent visit to refugee camps in Athens and Lesbos. Sivignon represented the MdM international network at the humanitarian summit in Istanbul last May and Read more.
World Humanitarian Summit: Françoise Sivignon – Closing Plenary
Thank you very much Deputy Secretary General. I want to thank the Secretariat of the World Humanitarian Summit, our Turkish hosts and all of the volunteers for their tremendous hard work. NGO’s have strongly engaged in the World Humanitarian Summit process for more than two years now, with a willingness to change and evolve. They Read more.
Interview with Bashar Kailani: Field Coordinator in Ukraine
Before you came to Ukraine, you worked with Doctors of the World/Médecins du Monde in Syria. Did that experience help you for your work in Ukraine? The Syrian experience did teach me a lot of things about how to handle the situation. I didn’t have the same feeling of panic that a person might feel Read more.
International Women Day
How did your experience as a medical coordinator/health advisor shape your stance as you became a leading figure in humanitarian responses? My career progressed from field clinical care in a refugee camp in Ethiopia with Somalian refugees to medical coordinator with MSF before settling into a headquarter position. It was kind of a natural progression, Read more.
Doctors of the World Report Finds Gaps In European Healthcare
The Doctors of the World Observatory Report draws on data and interviews gathered from 43,286 people who attended clinics and programs run by the Doctors of the World/Médecins du Monde network and partner NGOs in 14 countries in 2016. Our patients included national citizens in their own countries, as well as refugees and migrants – Read more.
Bangladesh: Rohingya Refugee Crisis Escalates
In August 2017, Myanmar’s military launched widespread and deadly attacks on the Rohingya ethnic minority living in Rahkine state. The ongoing violence has caused more than 800,000 Rohingya to flee across the border into Bangladesh, where many are now residing in squalid refugee camps with little access to food, water or medical care. In Bangladesh, Read more.
Syria
The Syrian civil war has claimed thousands of lives, displaced over 10 million people & fueled the worst refugee crisis since World War II The war in Syria has been ongoing for nearly 12 years, with millions of civilians trapped in the conflict and millions more fleeing to neighboring countries and Europe. Besides the hundreds Read more.
DotW US Statement on Kunduz Airstrike
Doctors of the World US (DotW) expresses our sincere sympathy for those who lost their lives or were wounded in today’s bombings on the Doctors Without Borders/MSF-run medical facility in Kunduz, Afghanistan. An estimated 9 MSF medical workers have been killed and another 37 people have been injured, including 19 local hospital staff. Dr. Ron Read more.
Europe’s Refugee Crisis: Bridges, Not Fences
By Dr. Françoise Sivignon and Janice Hughes – Presidents of Médecins du Monde France and Doctors of the World UK The inability of the European Union to agree to a meaningful response to the current migrant crisis is not only disgraceful, it risks defining the Union’s legacy as a spectacular failure. After the Second Read more.