International News

We started our campaign ¨Our Right to Cure¨, for the support of workers in the health care system who are "conscientious objectors"
Médecins du Monde (in Spain) started the campaign ¨ Our Right to Cure ¨. This campain’s aim is to recruit professionals in the field of health care system to participate in the movement against the exclusion of illegal immigrants from medical care. We have put in place an action to mobilize citizens against a law that, from September 1st, it will exclude from the public health system, immigrants lacking a resident’s permit,. 

Doctors of the World (Médecins du Monde) launches vaccination campaign and nutrition programme for 12,000 children under five in the most isolated region of the North
In Mali, 3,5 million people are affected by the current food crisis, among which an estimated 175,000 children under five are at risk of severe acute malnutrition. Without access to health care, this condition leads to death. The current situation in the North of Mali – mixing armed conflict, continued displacements and difficult access to basic services – makes the situation of this weakened children particularly worrying.   To strengthen the immunity of this young children, medical humanitarian NGO Doctors of the World/Médecins du Monde has launched a massive vaccination campaign combined with a nutritional program covering the whole region of Kidal, one of the most isolated and insecure areas of the country.  

Médecins du monde Japan
Doctors of the world first came to Japan for an intervention following the big Kobe earthquake in 1995. MdM Japan was created in 1995, shortly thereafter.
Because an advance emergency relief plan is indispensible, MdM Japan drafted a Disaster Action Plan. The result of this work was that Japan’s official disaster prevention plan provided for a close network between administration, fire departments, transport systems and medical care, therefore eliminating the need for an NGO to provide additional relief activities. However, the seriousness of the disaster in March 2011 forced us to change our plan.

Médecins du Monde calls for an end to the indiscriminate violence against civilians and strengthens its assistance activities in the Middle East
As the violence against civilians continues and the Joint Special Envoy of the UN and the Arab League is due to visit Damascus, Médecins du Monde is reinforcing its assistance activities in the Middle East in order to support medical personnel who are treating the wounded as well as people fleeing the conflict to neighbouring countries (Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey).

According to World Health Organization, 28 sub-Saharan countries of Africa and the Middle East, where female genital mutilation (FGM) is a common practice, 130 million girls and women have fallen victim to this practice.

Greece’s bailout is one means of avoiding bankruptcy and further austerity measures to reduce the deficit, as billions of euro have been pledged. However, these measures aimed at rescuing the financial system, tend to forget the consequences for those people that are especially "weak".

Paris, March 1, 2012
In response to population movements, MDM start an emergency medical mission for displaced populations in the country and isolated populations in the region of Kidal. This mission is meant to support existing health structures.

The Medicins du Monde request by Francois Hollande to put an end to the policies that ‘generates patients’. 
Faced with the socialist candidate, Medicins du Monde affects the issue of health crisis that affects the poorest people in France and bring the issue of solidarity health system: 30% people of France say that they have either delayed or stopped therapy because of the lack of resources. Among patients treated by Medicins du Monde: 8% of pregnant women living in the street, the 2 / 3 of children under 6 years old not continue consistently vaccination, 50% of patients have a serious or chronic illness and have not healed. At the same time diseases of poverty have made their reappearance: tuberculosis, gastroenteritis, epidemic of measles.

MdM will continue its work for three years, overseeing a project promoting the rights of street children, including better access to healthcare.

The restrictions imposed by Israel on the movement and access of humanitarian assistance and development cooperation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory cost more than 3.2 million euro per year, according to the Association of International Organizations for Development (Asociación de Agencias Internacionales de Desarrollo – AIDA).