One night, in the summer of 2017, Lalu Begum awoke to her next-door neighbour’s house on fire. Their town was being attacked as a wave of horrific violence swept across Myanmar’s Rakhine state. On Aug. 25, 2017, the Myanmar government had launched a military campaign against the Rohingya people, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority group […]
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is utterly appalled and outraged by the Israeli airstrike on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, last night. The airstrike hit Nasser’s surgery building, killing six people, including a child and a surgeon, and injuring 52 others. No warning was given before the attack. Among the injured, MSF has […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF condemns another deadly attack on Nasser hospital
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is experiencing the largest and deadliest Ebola disease outbreak in its history. According to Ministry of Health figures, in nearly six months since it was declared, almost 11,000 people have been infected and more than 5,300 have died as a result. The real figures are likely higher. The staff working […]
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The Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN), the de facto authority in North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been imposing harmful restrictions on seeking care for sexual violence. These policies, carried out over recent months, obstruct people from accessing this essential care and put them at greater risk. […]
For 10 days, Palestinians in Hebron and surrounding communities faced military raids, forced evictions, arrests, demolitions of houses and businesses and severe movement restrictions, with disastrous consequences for their access to healthcare. Many people were prevented from reaching medical facilities, while healthcare workers and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff were unable to reach […]
Read More… from Palestine: Israeli lockdown in Hebron forces MSF to temporarily suspend care
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on all leaders at COP31 to put health at the centre of climate action, turning negotiations and declarations into concrete action for the world’s most affected communities. “The window of opportunity to avoid a potentially catastrophic future is rapidly closing,” says Maria Guevara, MSF international medical secretary […]
No mention of International Humanitarian Assistance Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is profoundly disappointed that the Canadian government’s Federal Budget 2026 makes no mention of international humanitarian assistance or global health, at a time when global funding cuts have already decimated the support that people affected by crises depend on for survival. These omissions […]
In a period covering more than two years of ongoing conflict, mass displacement, damaged infrastructure, disrupted essential services, and restricted humanitarian access in Sudan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams across Darfur treated around 30,000 people who had vaccine-preventable diseases. According to MSF’s new report, Vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks in Darfur, the most common disease […]
Read More… from Sudan: MSF urges restoring routine immunization
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of physician Mohammed Obeid. He remains detained by Israel without any charges since Oct. 26, 2024. Mohammed Obeid, an orthopedic surgeon, was arrested while providing lifesaving medical care in the Kamal Adwan hospital in the north of Gaza. Since his detention he […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF surgeon must be released after two years of arbitrary detention
It is unacceptable that the U.S.-based pharmaceutical corporation Gilead Sciences made more than 8 billion in HIV product sales in the third quarter of this year yet continues to block access to the highly effective HIV prevention medicine lenacapavir for millions of people, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Gilead insists on charging high prices […]
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