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European event for access to healthcare

12 avril 2012

On 10th April, 2012, Doctors of the World-Médecins du monde (MdM) International Network organized an event "Health is not a luxury" in front of European Parliament to raise awareness on the difficulties in accessing healthcare in Europe for groups with many factors of vulnerability. A roundtable discussion with 3 Members of Parliament, 3 persons directly concerned met in our clinics in Belgium, DG SANCO principal advisor for public health, 3 presidents from MdM France, Spain and Sweden, MdM (...)

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11th March 2011. Earthquake and tsunami: Japan one year after

9 March 2012

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 (...)

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HAITI 2 years after...

Two years after the earthquake, Doctors of the World’s teams, which have been in Haiti since 1989, and are made up almost entirely of Haitians (95%), pursue their work in a difficult context marked by political transition and reduction in funding (...)

Horn of Africa Emergency: Doctors of the World launches activities in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya

photo credit: Pino Gonzalez The Horn of Africa is experiencing an unprecedented period of drought after two consecutive seasons of insufficient rainfall in 2010 and 2011. Tens of thousands of refugees, fleeing not only the drought but also (...)

Access to healthcare for undocumented migrants in 11 European countries.

This survey, based on 1 218 interviews in 11 countries - Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom, bears witness to living conditions, state of health and access to health care (...)