NEW YORK/BEIRUT, NOVEMBER 17, 2022 Following Lebanon ’s first recorded cholera case in almost three decades, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started vaccinating people in the north and northeast of the country, where the most cases have been recorded.
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 24, 2022 With hundreds of people from Somalia arriving each week in Kenya ’s Dadaab refugee camps , living conditions for the more than 233,000 refugees in the overcrowded camps are worsening and there is a high risk of disease outbreaks like measles and cholera .
NEW YORK/GENEVA, OCTOBER 19, 2022 Due to the high number of countries currently experiencing cholera outbreaks and a shortage of oral cholera vaccine, the International Coordinating Group (ICG) announced today that it will temporarily suspend the standard two-dose vaccination regimen administered during cholera outbreaks.
Some three and a half years after she launched Stand Speak Rise Up! at an international forum hosted in Luxembourg, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa is still hard at work not only raising awareness, but also providing concrete help to the victims of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, July 12, 2022 Thousands of people are trapped without drinking water, food or medical care in an isolated area of the Cité Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince as armed groups battle for control of the area, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today, calling on armed groups to spare civili