Latest facts (Updated June 19, 2023) • Out of the 108 million displaced people estimated by UNHCR, over 62.5 million are IDPs. • There are over 35.3 million refugees around the world. • There are approximately 5.4 million asylum seekers, people whose claim for refugee status has not yet been determined. • Lower-income nations host 76 per cent of the […]
Living in constant fear of eviction, seeing their homes demolished and having their movements restricted are some of the challenges faced by Palestinians in and around Masafer Yatta, in the southern West Bank of Palestine. In its new report The unbearable life: the health impacts of the Israeli measures to forcibly evict the residents of […]
In Madagascar, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing an alarming rate of malnutrition in southeastern districts where families are dealing with a triple crisis of food insecurity, malaria, and extreme weather events. Between January and April over 1,200 children under five years old suffering from severe acute malnutrition were admitted to […]
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Unprecedented numbers of malnourished children in need of lifesaving treatment are being brought to therapeutic feeding centres run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno state, in northeast Nigeria. MSF is warning of an impending catastrophe if immediate action is not taken. The number of admissions since the start of […]
The situation for migrants at the border between Nicaragua and Honduras has worsened in recent weeks. Since the beginning of March, more and more people have been crossing the borders of eastern Honduras. According to figures from Honduras National Migration Institute (INM), from January to March more than 30,000 people have entered the country irregularly […]
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Kirer Koleka is patiently standing at the back of a queue with her one-year-old daughter strapped to her back and her six-year-year old daughter by her side. Kirer and her daughters are waiting to receive an essential item, mosquito nets, required to prevent malaria which is endemic in South Sudan. Kirer and her family […]
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In September 2022, a rare variant of Ebola, the so-called Sudan strain, began spreading in Uganda. Logistician Bonnet Kamate Kihugo has worked for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) around the world for nearly 20 years, but never with Ebola. Despite this, he didn’t hesitate when asked to join the project. It has been intense. […]
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“Having consistent, quality water allows the hospital to receive patients and provide them with safe care.” Carlos, age 4, stares at a group of children not much older than him, who are bathing and playing in a stagnant water well in front of his house. The young boy lives with his family and a […]
Pregnant women from refugee communities in Malaysia have limited access to adequate maternal healthcare services, such as antenatal and postnatal care, skilled birth attendants, emergency obstetric care, and family planning services, which results in the high rate of maternal mortality among refugees. According to a study by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees […]
Read More… from Malaysia: Lack of access to maternal healthcare services puts refugee women at risk
At Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), we are guided by principles of impartiality, neutrality and independence. This approach to humanitarian action steers us to deliver medical humanitarian assistance whenever, wherever and to whoever needs it. When working in volatile and challenging contexts, this could mean setting up a hospital in a war zone or […]
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