8-16 | What does it take to get essential humanitarian aid to the people who need it?Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, is an international humanitarian organization that operates in all corners of the globe in countless different contexts. We respond to both widely-known and unseen emergencies in situations of conflict, natural disasters, or disease outbreaks. Every response is unique but most of our interventions have a few crucial ingredients in common.
5-23 | It’s been a year since the eruption of a devastating conflict between the Philippines’ army and insurgents, which lasted five months. MSF is committed to rebuilding primary health structures in a heavily destroyed city – while supporting those still unable to come home.
5-5 | Manila, Philippines is set to host the 18th round of the multilateral trade deal - the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) that encompasses 50% of the global population. With the Philippines holding the chairmanship of ASEAN for 2017, it can be an opportune time for Philippines to take the lead in ensuring that market gains will not trump the right of millions of people to access affordable medicines.
5-4 | “We see them on TV, those who die young because of a cancer in the uterus,” Mary Jane explains, her youngest daughter wriggling in her lap while her other daughter and niece sit beside her. Together with 325,000 other people, she lives among the informal settlements of Tondo that cling to the docks of the port of Manila. The slums have names like ‘Smokey Mountain’, evoking its rise as a gigantic mound of burning waste, or ’Happyland’, derived from a local word - ‘hapilan’ - for dump site, or ‘Aroma’, where Mary Jane’s family live.
1-27 | Typhoon Haiyan, which ripped through the Philippines on 8th November 2013, was one of the worst storms in recorded history, claiming 6,300 lives and displacing over 4 million people. As one of the world's foremost providers of emergency relief, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) had dispatched teams to the affected areas within a day of the super typhoon making landfall.