South Africa: Minimal Decline in AIDS-Related Deaths Worries MSF

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is concerned about the minimal decline in mortality due to AIDS-related diseases since 2014 despite welcoming the progress made in the HIV fight… Read more »

Ethiopia: Ethnic Violence Fuels Cycles of Displacement in Ethiopia

Thousands of people have shuttled back and forth between Southern Ethiopia's Gedeo and Guji areas over the past 15 months following an outbreak of ethnic violence in April 2018 and… Read more »

Ethiopia: The Constant Cycle of Displacement in Ethiopia

Thousands of people have shuttled backwards and forwards between the Gedeo and Guji areas of southern Ethiopia over the past 15 months, following an outbreak of ethnic violence in… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Six Years On, Still No News of Our Colleagues Held Hostage By Armed Group ADF

Goma - Six years have passed since our colleagues Romy, Richard and Philippe were abducted, and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is still without news of them. Read more »

Africa: Six Things Big Pharma Doesn't Want You to Know

For decades, the global pharmaceutical industry has spread a deceptive narrative justifying the sky-high and ever-increasing prices of drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics as necessary… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Urgent Humanitarian Response Needed As Multiple Crises Hit Ituri

Hundreds of thousands of people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance as multiple crises hit Ituri province in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), said the… Read more »

Africa: World Refugee Day - Refugees Around the World: Stories of Survival

There are now 70.8 million people forced from home around the world--more than at any time in modern history. These are people who have fled extreme danger, whether to escape… Read more »

South Africa: Doctors Without Borders Share More HIV/AIDS, TB Success Stories

It is day two, (11 June – 14 June 2019) of the South African AIDS conference taking place in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal. Today, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) shared its success… Read more »

South Africa: HIV Project in Eshowe Reaches 90-90-90 Target One Year Ahead of 2020 Deadline

Ahead of the SA AIDS Conference which take place from 11-14 June 2019, in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) wanted to take this opportunity to share a success… Read more »

Africa: MSF HIV Project Reaches Ambitious Global Treatment and Prevention Targets

Community-level interventions for people who can't access conventional health services are key to getting ahead of the HIV epidemic Read more »

Africa: European Policies Continue to Claim Lives On the Mediterranean Sea

Amsterdam/Marseille - One year on from Italy's decision to close its ports to humanitarian vessels and the first political stand-off over the fate of people rescued in the Central… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Massive Mobilisation Urgently Needed to Curb Fast-Spreading Measles Outbreak

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for a massive mobilisation of national and international organisations to help combat a measles epidemic in the Democratic… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: MSF Calls for Support As Recently Declared Measles Epidemic Quickly Spreads

Mobilization of vaccinations and treatment key in curbing deadliest measles outbreak in years Read more »

South Sudan: New MSF Hospital in Ulang Assists People Affected by Violence and Neglect

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has started a stable project in the northeastern town of Ulang, close to the Ethiopian border in South Sudan’s Upper Nile region, to address the… Read more »

Africa: WHO Launches Strategy to Cut Snakebite Deaths and Disabilities in Half

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the release of the long-anticipated World Health Organization (WHO) strategy on the prevention and control of snakebite… Read more »

Nigeria: Children Are Still Dying From Measles in Borno State

In the 70-bed Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) measles unit inside Maiduguri's State Specialist Hospital, Doctor Muhammad Abdullahi checks on… Read more »

Nigeria: I Have Not Seen Such High Numbers of Measles Cases

Five-year-old Mustapha Osman is receiving fluids intravenously in the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) measles unit inside State Specialist hospital in Maiduguri, in… Read more »

Mozambique: Treating HIV In The Cyclone-Devastated City of Beira

When Cyclone Idai struck the port city of Beira in Mozambique on 15 March, it damaged or destroyed buildings and infrastructure and ripped the roofs off most health centres,… Read more »

Mozambique: Update On MSF Emergency Response to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth - Mozambique

In early March, a storm cell brought heavy rains to Malawi before heading out to sea off the coast of Mozambique and intensifying into Cyclone Idai. In the early hours of the… Read more »

Central African Republic: MSF Reaches Town Cut Off By Violence in Central African Republic

Over the last six years, Central African Republic (CAR) has endured peaks of intense violence that have weakened an already precarious health system and deprived people of access… Read more »

Libya: More Than Medicine: a Look At Mental Health Needs in Detention

Below the gloomy sky of Tripoli's Janzour neighbourhood, a woman steps out onto the terrace of her fifth-floor apartment and carefully hangs a damp collection of colourful laundry… Read more »

Chad: 'The Measles Epidemic Declared in May 2018 Is Still Not Under Control'

MSF steps up its measles vaccination and medical response as year-long outbreak increases in intensity Read more »

Mozambique: Treating HIV in the Cyclone-Devastated City of Beira - Mozambique

When Cyclone Idai struck the port city of Beira in Mozambique on 15 March, it damaged or destroyed buildings and infrastructure and ripped the roofs off most health centres,… Read more »

Libya: Ongoing Fighting Endangers Detained Migrants and Refugees

Since fighting erupted in Tripoli, Libya, on April 4, 2019, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for the urgent evacuation of detained… Read more »

Chad: Measles Epidemic Declared in May 2018 Still Not Under Control

Parts of Chad, including the capital, N'Djamena, and the city of Am Timan, are in the throes of a measles outbreak that has lasted for a year and is rising in intensity. Read more »