1/5 As part of our response to the catastrophic malnutrition & health crisis in Zamzam camp, North Darfur, we opened a 25-bed field hospital on Tuesday 23 April to treat the most-critical cases. In the space of just 2 days, we had already admitted 15 children for treatment

Danaher continues to rake in profits in low- and middle-income countries through Cepheid’s GeneXpert test cartridges used to diagnose TB, HIV, Ebola, hepatitis, etc.

Doctors w/o Borders MSF Access Campaign calls on Danaher Corporation to reduce its prices. doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/msf-cal…

This week, Avril Benoît sat with Axios 🎙️to #TalkAboutSudan and the staggering humanitarian needs.

Appreciated my conversation with Niala about the relentless assaults on healthcare in conflict zones, and the importance of defending international humanitarian law.

#TalkAboutSudan La guerre au Soudan dure depuis un an maintenant, et pourtant, de nombreuses personnes dans le monde ignorent l'ampleur des souffrances humanitaires dans ce pays. Nous devons continuer d’attirer l’attention sur les vastes besoins.

#TalkAboutSudan -

Back in October people in Zalingei, Central Darfur faced indescribable atrocities.

MSF USA executive director Avril Benoît walks us through some of the challenges of re-establishing a presence there to support the local hospital and provide medical care.

Imagine one latrine for every 600+ people.

MSF USA executive director Avril Benoît just returned from eastern Chad, where hundreds of thousands of refugees struggle to meet their most basic needs.

Her message: “The war in Sudan NEEDS our attention.”
#TalkAboutSudan

#TalkAboutSudan : 'It is past time for the int'l community to address this crisis head on.'

Avril Benoît visited our teams in eastern Chad & in Sudan's Darfur region.

Her statement: Most of the world has turned away from the humanitarian crisis in Sudan doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/benoit-…

'It's a slow motion massacre of people,' Avril Benoît, executive director of Doctors Without Borders in the U.S., says about the famine and acute malnutrition in Gaza since the war started.

She says there needs to be a 'massive influx' of food, medicine and trained personnel.

After a deadly Israeli strike on aid workers, we’ll hear from Avril Benoît of Doctors Without Borders and Janti Soeripto, CEO of Save the Children (@SaveCEO_US), about the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza - and the danger facing the people trying to help. Tune in, 10:30amET.

Remembering our colleagues killed in Gaza over the past six months of war. Some of them were killed while providing care for patients or sheltering with their families.

Attacks on health workers and health facilities are STILL happening. #CeasefireNOW

🔗doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/remembe…

🔴 BREAKING:

Today, on 5 April at around 3 am, our office in Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, was bombed and completely destroyed. All our staff are safe. Five civilians who were close to the office were injured... 🧵

#WarInUkraine

4.4.24 1017 am ET CNN Newsroom Anchor, Jim Acosta Jim Acosta w/ U.S Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders, Avril Benoit Avril Benoît

Media: Doctors w/o Borders's @AvrilBenoit to Jim Acosta: 'Even in attacks on shelters where families of my colleagues from #MédecinsSansFrontières / #DoctorsWithoutBorders were staying and were killed, those [shelters' locations and purpose] were notified to the authorities, the notification…

Saying Healthcare is #NotATarget misses the point:
it IS a target.
Attacking healthcare is illegal, but as a military strategy, the logic is impeccable:
- amplifies the harm of war
- creates intolerable living conditions
- drives forced displacement
- facilitates ethnic cleansing

A noteworthy thread about the continued pattern of IDF attacks on humanitarians. Since Oct. 7, five MSF International staff have been killed in Gaza. Hospitals, healthcare infrastructure & personnel have been repeatedly hit by strikes or bullets, despite our numerous pleas to stop it.

Heartfelt condolences to our friends World Central Kitchen. This deadly attack wasn't an isolated incident. Israel has deliberately attacked humanitarian workers & demonstrated disregard for the protection of medical & humanitarian aid.🚨We need an immediate sustained #CeasefireNow . 🚨

I just returned from Darfur where I heard horrific stories of the violence communities have endured, even within medical facilities.⬇️