Category: Climate Crisis

A hostile climate: New report reveals how MSF humanitarian workers and communities are beginning to adapt to the challenges of climate change

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Climate change is having devastating consequences for human health. A new report from Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Humanitarian Action for Climate and Environment (HACE) Initiative and Heidelberg University Institute of Global Health describes how MSF humanitarian workers, patients and communities are experiencing and responding to a rapidly changing environment. Drawing on […]

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At COP28, more failure is not an option for vulnerable communities

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Too little is being done to protect the most vulnerable people against the negative impacts of climate change, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). World leaders gathering in Dubai for COP28 must take urgent measures to protect the health of the most affected communities. “The world’s most vulnerable people are paying with their health […]

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MSF Policy Brief for The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change 2023 

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This year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and other humanitarian organizations has also responded to epidemics of climate-sensitive diseases, including multiple concurrent cholera outbreaks and the rise of dengue and malaria in several areas, including in conflict-affected settings.  MSF and other aid organizations are already struggling to meet the rising health and humanitarian needs. […]

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Madagascar: Struggling to survive a triple crisis

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  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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Madagascar: malnutrition spikes in the wake of climate shocks

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  An alarming situation is unfolding in southeast Madagascar, where malnutrition is on the rise in rural communities. People in the southeastern Ikongo district face acute food shortages after harvests were destroyed in last year’s cyclones. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis of January 2023 shows that more than a quarter of the […]

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Ethiopia: At the convergence of humanitarian and climate crises

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More than 22 million people were estimated to need humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia in 2022.[1]  Many faced the tragic consequences of conflict, particularly communities in the regions of Afar, Amhara, Tigray and Southern Nations (SNNPR). At the same time, natural disasters pushed people’s coping mechanisms to their limits. Communities across the vastness of the Somali […]

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Extreme floods in South Sudan and elsewhere are affecting communities already struggling to cope with multiple crises

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By Michael Lawson, MSF Canada’s humanitarian affairs officer, and Léo Tremblay, a meteorologist with MSF’s Meteorological and Climate Assistance initiative South Sudan is no stranger to crises. More than eight million people in the country are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of displacement, food insecurity and exposure to violence, […]

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COP 27: The climate crisis is a health and humanitarian crisis

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) responds to urgent medical and humanitarian crises in more than 70 countries. Our teams are providing medical care to those who are experiencing the health impacts of the climate emergency, many of whom are the least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. MSF is […]

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MSF highlights global health inequities due to climate change in 2022 Lancet Countdown Report

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  TOWARD MORE RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE HUMANITARIAN ACTION As a medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) witnesses firsthand the impacts of climate change, and how they threaten people’s health. In our emergency interventions, we are responding to the direct and indirect impacts of climate change and environmental degradation. This includes deaths and […]

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