Africa: MSF Ends Operation of Geo Barents With Commitment to Return to Central Mediterranean Sea

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced today that we have ceased operations on board our search and rescue vessel, Geo Barents, which had been operational since… Read more »

South Sudan: MSF Calls for Improved and Coordinated Response to Cholera Outbreak

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is deeply concerned about the rapidly escalating cholera outbreak in Malakal, in South Sudan's Upper Nile State. Since the first… Read more »

Africa: Improving Access to Healthcare for People in Benin

Located in the northwest of Benin, bordering Burkina Faso and Togo, the Atacora department is facing multiple challenges linked to the deterioration of security and health… Read more »

South Sudan: Urgent Response Needed to Stop Cholera Outbreak in Upper Nile State South Sudan

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned about the rapidly escalating cholera outbreak in Malakal, in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. Since the first… Read more »

Nigeria: Levels of Global Acute Malnutrition Have Doubled Since Last Year in Parts of Northwest Nigeria

A recent survey done by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) concluded that there are critical levels of malnutrition in parts of northwest Nigeria. The survey was… Read more »

Mozambique: Addressing Challenges of HIV Care in Conflict-Hit Cabo Delgado

“I have always been passionate about medicine, but that passion deepened when my mother was diagnosed with diabetes and also contracted HIV,” says HIV specialist Dr… Read more »

Mozambique: A Personal Commitment to HIV Care in Mozambique

"I have always been passionate about medicine, but that passion deepened when my mother was diagnosed with diabetes and also contracted HIV while caring for her sister," says HIV… Read more »

Tanzania: MSF Collaborates With The Ministry Of Health To Improve Mother And Child Health Care In Liwale

"My daughter was able to give birth safely to a healthy baby boy,” says new grandmother Keja Masaga. “The doctors here have been incredibly kind and supportive.”… Read more »

Africa: Game-Changing HIV Prevention Injectable Set To Reach Several African Countries

In 2022, the WHO recommended the innovative long-acting injectable version of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Cabotegravir (CAB-LA), as part of a comprehensive… Read more »

Sudan: 1 in 6 War-Wounded Patients At South Khartoum Hospital Are Children

Approximately one in six war-wounded patients treated since January 2024 at the Bashair Teaching hospital in south Khartoum, Sudan, have been children under the age of 15 years… Read more »

Central Africa: MSF Again Calls for Urgent Water and Sanitation Response in North Kivu Displacement Camps

After several months, insanitary conditions and severe, life-threatening shortages of clean water continue to reach critical levels in various informal camps for displaced people… Read more »

South Sudan: Urgent Action Needed to Address Growing Cholera Outbreak

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has set up a 20-bed cholera treatment unit (CTU) at the Renk Civil Hospital in South Sudan, in response to a cholera outbreak declared… Read more »

South Africa: Pharmaceutical Corporations Must Make Insulin Pens Available at $1 Per Pen

Ahead of World Diabetes Day, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on pharmaceutical corporations Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, and all insulin manufacturers to take urgent… Read more »

South Sudan: Alarming Spike in Admissions of Children With Malaria At Aweil State Hospital

An alarming number of children suffering from severe malaria have been admitted to Aweil state hospital, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs the paediatric and… Read more »

Mali: MSF Condemns Violence Against Our Team in Mali

On 14 October, on the outskirts of Nampala in the Segou region of central Mali, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team and community health workers were violently… Read more »

South Sudan: Life On the Levee South Sudan

South Sudan is currently facing one of its worst floods in recent decades. In Old Fangak, where teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are working, only mud dykes… Read more »

Sudan: Echoes From Darfur Sudan

One and a half years into the conflict in Sudan, refugees are still fleeing to eastern Chad in search for safety, where they arrive at camps in dire conditions. Access to clean… Read more »

Burkina Faso: MSF Temporarily Suspends Activities in Djibo, Burkina Faso

Faced with ongoing security challenges that threaten the ability to carry out activities in Djibo, Burkina Faso, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has made the difficult… Read more »

Nigeria: Four Challenges to Reaching Remote Communities in Nigeria

Come rain or shine, Patrick A. Njok, has been ensuring patients in need of essential medical care get to the hospital in time for two years as a driver with Médecins Sans… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Overcoming Mental Health Challenges in Zimbabwe

Under the scorching sun in Epworth, a suburb of Harare, 20-year-old Peter Chimntanda reaches out to young people facing mental health challenges, sharing information about the… Read more »

Sudan: Ikea Foundation Supports MSF in Sudan Crisis Scale-Up

The war in Sudan, now 550 days in, has triggered one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in decades. According to the UN, one in five people has been displaced, and half of… Read more »

Africa: TACTiC - Test, Avoid, Cure TB in Children - a Survey of Paediatric TB Policies

This new report details how children with tuberculosis continue to be left behind in the global effort to end the disease. The report, TACTIC: Test, Avoid, Cure Tuberculosis in… Read more »

Africa: Urgent Action Needed As Govts and Donors Fail Children With Tuberculosis

A new report released today by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), shows that children with tuberculosis continue to be left behind in the global effort to end the… Read more »

Sudan: Supply Blockade Forces MSF to Stop Care for 5000 Malnourished Children in Sudan

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to stop outpatient treatment for 5,000 children with acute malnutrition in Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur,… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: MSF Has and Continues to Treat More Than Two Victims of Sexual Violence Per Hour in DRC

In a new retrospective report, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reveals that - together with the Ministry of Health - we had treated an unprecedented number of victims… Read more »