http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Medecins_Sans_Frontieres_InternationalFind stories, videos, and photos about Medecins Sans Frontieres International from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:55:54 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/WORLD/africa/10/14/congo.civilian.attacks/tztop.congo.afp.gi.jpghttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Medecins_Sans_Frontieres_International14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Medecins Sans Frontieres International from CNN.com.http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/14/congo.civilian.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/14/congo.civilian.attacks/index.html#cnnSTCTextHumanitarian organizations have been unable to meet the "massive needs" of civilians facing brutal attacks in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a medical aid group said Wednesday.Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:01:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/11/africa.flooding.disease/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/11/africa.flooding.disease/index.html#cnnSTCTextAfter weeks of torrential rain and flooding in West Africa, humanitarian aid agencies on the ground fear an outbreak of diseases like malaria and cholera.Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:35:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/04/mental.health.brazil/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/04/mental.health.brazil/index.html#cnnSTCTextAn estimated 150,000 people live in Complexo do Alemao, where armed groups fight for turf, and fighting between police forces and ruling groups leave thousands of people trapped by violence.Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:34:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/10/chagas.bolivia.deadly/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/10/chagas.bolivia.deadly/index.html#cnnSTCTextA hundred years ago a Brazilian physician, Carlos Chagas, showed that monkeys were susceptible to a rare parasitic illness carried by a particular Latin American bug.Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:13:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/18/sri.lanka.refugees/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/18/sri.lanka.refugees/index.html#cnnSTCTextHumanitarian aid agencies scrambled Monday to offer help to the tens of thousands of people in need after Tamil separatists declared an end to their quarter-century struggle in Sri Lanka.Wed, 20 May 2009 00:10:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/18/congo.displaced/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/18/congo.displaced/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe International Committee of the Red Cross says it is increasing its humanitarian efforts in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the humanitarian situation has deteriorated since last fall.Mon, 18 May 2009 16:49:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/15/somalia.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/15/somalia.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCTextClashes between Somalia's transitional government and the Al-Shabab militia left 103 people dead and 420 others wounded, Somali officials said Friday.Fri, 15 May 2009 22:34:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29/africa.meningitis/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/29/africa.meningitis/index.html#cnnSTCTextDoctors Without Borders has embarked on a massive vaccination campaign in three African countries to combat an outbreak of meningitis that has killed hundreds of people, the organization said Wednesday.Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:15:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/19/somalia.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/19/somalia.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCTextGunmen attacked a convoy Sunday in Somalia and took several hostages, including two foreign aid workers from the group Doctors Without Borders.Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:19:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/13/haiti.crisis/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/13/haiti.crisis/index.html#cnnSTCTextFrom victims of gunshot wounds and domestic violence to common road injuries, Trinite Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti is inundated with trauma cases daily.Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:52:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/14/sudan.darfur.abduction/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/14/sudan.darfur.abduction/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe four Doctors Without Borders staffers abducted earlier this week in Sudan's Darfur region have been "safely released," the group said on Saturday.Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:44:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/12/sudan.darfur.abduction/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/12/sudan.darfur.abduction/index.html#cnnSTCTextThree Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) staffers have been abducted in the war-torn Sudanese province of Darfur, the group said Thursday.Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:42:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/10/sudan.aid.meningitis/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/10/sudan.aid.meningitis/index.html#cnnSTCTextA meningitis outbreak is threatening the lives of tens of thousands of people in Darfur, according to an aid agency expelled from the country last week.Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:07:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/22/zimbabwe.prime.minister/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/22/zimbabwe.prime.minister/index.html#cnnSTCTextZimbabwe's new prime minister on Sunday called the country's economic situation "dire and serious" and asked the international community for help.Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:26:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/17/Zimbabwe.cholera.crisis/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/17/Zimbabwe.cholera.crisis/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe political crisis that has gripped Zimbabwe for nearly a year may be drawing to an end, but a deadly cholera outbreak there is only getting worse.Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:42:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/05/kouchner.france.allegations/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/05/kouchner.france.allegations/index.html#cnnSTCTextJust moments before the chamber of the French National Assembly had been filled with noisy political caterwauling, but when Bernard Kouchner rose to defend his honor, the hall went dead quiet.Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:54:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/13/zimbabwe.cholera/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/13/zimbabwe.cholera/index.html#cnnSTCTextDeaths in Zimbabwe related to the cholera epidemic are approaching 2,000, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, and close to 40,000 people have been affected by the preventable water-borne disease.Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:30:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/25/myanmar.hiv/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/25/myanmar.hiv/index.html#cnnSTCTextAlmost 25,000 people will die this year of HIV/AIDS in Myanmar unless lifesaving treatment is significantly increased, according to a new report.Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:30:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/16/congo.aid.worker/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/16/congo.aid.worker/index.html#cnnSTCTextGunmen killed an aid worker in war-wracked eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in an ambush Monday, according to his employer, an Italian non-government organization.Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:47:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/16/somalia.gov/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/16/somalia.gov/index.html#cnnSTCTextSomali president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed Tuesday appointed a new prime minister -- but the previous prime minister is refusing to accept his dismissal.Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:02:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/06/congo.ceasefire.unraveling/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/06/congo.ceasefire.unraveling/index.html#cnnSTCTextCongolese rebels fought government forces in eastern Congo Thursday on the eve of a regional summit on the crisis and despite a recent cease-fire, U.N. officials said.Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:40:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/29/congo.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/29/congo.fighting/index.html#cnnSTCTextRebel forces have declared a cease-fire after four days of fighting in the North Kivu province of eastern Congo, the French ambassador to the United Nations said after Security Council talks on the unfolding humanitarian crisis.Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:54:00 EDThttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20225673,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnnhttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20225673,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnnThe charitable foundation will be named after the couple's daughter ZaharaMon, 15 Sep 2008 12:08:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1829996,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1829996,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsThe farmlands are bursting with grain but the country is still suffering from starvation. Somehow good intentions have brought on perpetual wantWed, 06 Aug 2008 20:35:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1810198,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1810198,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsBurma's military rulers have approved visas for dozens of international relief workers and were allowing more foreigners into areas devastated by a cyclone that left millions in need of aidThu, 29 May 2008 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1737748,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1737748,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsA humanitarian crisis looms in the aftermath of a tropical cyclone that has killed at least 22,000 peopleTue, 06 May 2008 12:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/04/14/ypwr.peskin/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/04/14/ypwr.peskin/index.html#cnnSTCTextIt's Autism Awareness Month, but for people who have autism or live with someone who does, they are aware every day. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:27:00 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1715267,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicshttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1715267,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topicsAngelina Jolie's visit notwithstanding, the do-good organizations are too cowed by violence to return to IraqThu, 21 Feb 2008 21:35:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/02/03/chad/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/02/03/chad/index.html#cnnSTCTextCarrying blankets and bed sheets on their heads, thousands of refugees fleeing fighting in Chad's capital N'Djamena crossed a drought-stricken river to get to neighboring Cameroon Sunday, local officials and journalists said.Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:17:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/02/01/somalia.msf/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/02/01/somalia.msf/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe medical aid charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres, is pulling international staff out of Somalia after three of its members were killed.Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:10:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/28/somali.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/28/somali.bomb/index.html#cnnSTCTextA mine exploded Monday on a road in southern Somalia, killing four people -- three members of the medical humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres and a journalist.Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:04:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/18/yemen.drownings/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/18/yemen.drownings/index.html#cnnSTCTextAround 200 Africans migrants are feared dead after two boats they were traveling in sank off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday.Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:28:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/10/04/congo.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/10/04/congo.crash/index.html#cnnSTCTextAt least 30 people were killed Thursday after a plane crashed in a poor, crowded suburb of Kinshasa right after takeoff, according to a Congolese Ministry of Information official.Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:45:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/08/30/peru.quake.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/08/30/peru.quake.ap/index.html#cnnSTCTextRelief officials urgently appealed for more aid Thursday for earthquake survivors along Peru's shattered southern coast. Medical help, blankets and tents top the list, along with food, water and latrines.Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:44:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/01/ew.mov.turistas/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/01/ew.mov.turistas/index.htmlWould you believe it if I said that the fearsome homicidal baddie in "Turistas" is the most humane and morally responsible person in the movie?Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:57:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/18/8386170/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/18/8386170/index.htmOn the top floor of a drab apartment building on the edge of New Delhi, Ram Meher, 35, is taking his AIDS medicine, as he has every day for the past three years. Meher is a struggling wheat and sug... Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:01:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/01/housewives.tm/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/05/01/housewives.tm/index.htmlI am a 44-year-old woman who grew up in Berkeley who has never once voted for a Republican, or crossed a picket line, or failed to send in a small check when the Doctors Without Borders envelope showed up. I believe that we should not have invaded Iraq, that we should have signed the Kyoto treaty, that the Starr Report was, in part, the result of a vast right-wing conspiracy. I believe that poverty is our most pressing issue and that we should be pouring money and energy into its eradication. I believe that allowing migrant women and children to die of thirst in American deserts is a moral transgression that will stain us forever.Mon, 01 May 2006 19:00:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/04/25/aids.websites/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/04/25/aids.websites/index.htmlIf you want more information on the AIDS crisis, these Web sites provide useful information.Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:03:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/btsc.gajilan/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/27/btsc.gajilan/index.htmlFlying over northwestern Pakistan two months after the strongest earthquake to hit the area in 70 years is a stark testament to what happened on October 8, 2005.Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:10:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/07/morocco.spain/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/10/07/morocco.spain/index.htmlJust a day after six sub-Saharan Africans died while trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla, there was no mass assault by immigrants overnight, an unusual spell of quiet after several weeks of disturbances, a Spanish Interior Ministry spokesman told CNN on Friday.Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:25:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/15/niger.perspective/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/15/niger.perspective/index.htmlFour-year-old Aminu Yahaya lay alongside his mother in the makeshift hospital -- exhausted, his skin peeling, alarmingly thin, and fighting to survive.Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:54:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/02/cooper.niger/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/02/cooper.niger/index.htmlIn a small village in southern Niger, hundreds of mothers gather with their hungry children hoping somebody will help them.Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:51:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/29/niger.aidgroups/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/29/niger.aidgroups/index.htmlUrgent appeals have been made for help for famine-stricken Niger where more than one million people are at risk from starvation after a locust invasion worsened an already poor harvest. If you want to help, here is a list of organizations gathering aid:Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:36:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/27/btsc.koinange/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/27/btsc.koinange/index.htmlThe aid agencies caring for more than a thousand starving children at a refugee camp in southern Niger will believe reports of food airlifts when the help actually arrives.Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:47:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/27/un.niger/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/27/un.niger/index.htmlThe United Nations on Thursday will begin airlifting 44 tons of emergency food rations to famine-stricken Niger in West Africa, where 80,000 people are starving and more than a million others are at risk, officials said.Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:39:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/04/12/virus.marburg/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/04/12/virus.marburg/index.htmlThe number of cases of Marburg hemorrhagic fever has continued to rise in northwestern Angola, but efforts to educate residents about the disease are appearing to be having an effect, the World Health Organization said.Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:49:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/03/otsc.aceh.chinoy/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/03/otsc.aceh.chinoy/index.htmlA massive relief effort is underway to remove corpses in the Indonesian province of Aceh but rivers are still strewn with bodies more than a week after the tsunami disaster, CNN Senior Asian Correspondent Mike Chinoy reported.Mon, 03 Jan 2005 11:29:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/31/asia.quake/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/31/asia.quake/index.htmlAid has begun to reach tsunami victims in remote areas of Indonesia, as the U.N.'s emergency relief coordinator says the death toll is approaching 150,000.Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:28:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/tsunami.aidsites/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/tsunami.aidsites/index.htmlInternational aid organizations are accepting donations to help victims of the powerful earthquake and resulting tsunamis that caused widespread destruction in parts of South Asia and East Africa. The groups include:Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:18:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/04/iraq.aid/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/04/iraq.aid/index.htmlThe international relief group Medecins Sans Frontieres is stopping its activities in Iraq because of "escalating violence" in the country that is endangering its staff and other aid workers.Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:37:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/09/29/haiti.desperation/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/09/29/haiti.desperation/index.htmlThe city was knee-deep in mud, bodies still lay decomposing on waste ground. Homes were wrecked and lives shattered. But in the week we were in Gonaives, I didn't see anybody cry.Wed, 29 Sep 2004 17:45:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/10/darfur.children/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/10/darfur.children/index.htmlHamdi Ismail is one and a half years old, but weighs only 12 pounds.Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:03:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/15/afghanistan.rocket/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/15/afghanistan.rocket/index.htmlNATO forces have come under fire when at least one rocket exploded outside their headquarters in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan.Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:55:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/03/afghanistan.aid/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/03/afghanistan.aid/index.htmlThe global relief group Medecins Sans Frontiers, or Doctors Without Borders, has suspended its operations in Afghanistan after a deadly attack on its workers.Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:24:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/02/05/uganda.aid/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/02/05/uganda.aid/index.htmlInternational aid workers have found the break in the security situation they have been waiting for to enter a war-torn region of northern Uganda.Thu, 05 Feb 2004 14:40:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/12/01/269660/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1999/12/01/269660/index.htmAs nice as it would be to ignore the hoopla surrounding the millennial year, you'd have to be a deaf hermit living in a cave in Tibet to do so. But aside from some inevitable glitches, I don't see ...Wed, 01 Dec 1999 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/11/10/233777/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/11/10/233777/index.htmSo you're a big cheese with a lot of dough--giving a billion dollars to charity has got to be a swell thing to do, right? Ted Turner's recent $1 billion pledge to the U.N. has raised the question, ...Mon, 10 Nov 1997 05:01:00 EST