“My son was so badly injured and I had no hope for his recovery, as even his liver was torn to pieces,” says Fatima, the mother of a patient admitted to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Kunduz trauma centre, in Afghanistan, in July 2025. “The hospital did all they could to help him recover, […]
Read More… from Afghanistan: 10 years since the attack on MSF’s Kunduz trauma centre
This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. All staff were wearing […]
Eight years after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled a campaign of extreme targeted violence in Myanmar, a new report from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) shows people caught in a protracted crisis, facing constant threats of violence, diminishing assistance and a profound lack of control over their own future. As the international community […]
Read More… from Bangladesh: Rohingya voices echo from camps ahead of UN conference
The relentless Israeli offensive in Gaza City has forced Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend essential medical activities in the area due to the rapidly deteriorating security situation. This includes continued airstrikes and advancing tanks less than one kilometre from our healthcare facilities. The escalating attacks from Israeli forces have created an unacceptable […]
“We reaffirm our commitments to respect and uphold international law… to champion the protection of all humanitarian personnel, and to preserve the irreplaceable role of principled humanitarian action as a lifeline for all civilians in times of conflict.” These were the words the Canadian government committed again to uphold when it signed the Declaration for […]
The fight against three of the world’s most harmful and widespread diseases is under threat. Dramatic cuts to global health funding will impact the international response to AIDS, TB (tuberculosis) and malaria. For decades, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (known as the Global Fund) has played a central role responding to […]
With the United Nations General Assembly underway, the leaders of more than 20 major aid agencies working in Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), are calling on world leaders to urgently intervene after a UN commission concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Strip. This determination comes after a nearly […]
Read More… from Palestine: World leaders must act now to respond to genocide in Gaza
In 2024, the MSF team at Unguwa Uku hospital in Kano, Nigeria, admitted 46,304 children for malnutrition. The factors behind the crisis are complex, including climate change, armed conflict and the spiralling cost of living. Most children can be treated at home with special therapeutic food, whilst those with complications need more intensive care and are […]
On the afternoon of Monday, 15 September, Israeli Forces fired upon a clearly identified Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water truck while it was distributing 10,000 liters of drinking water in the neighborhood of Sheikh Radwan, in the eastern part of Gaza City. The vehicle’s route and schedule had been communicated in advance to […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF condemns Israeli attack on MSF water distribution site in Gaza City
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is appalled and saddened by the death of our colleague Hussein Alnajjar who died on Sept. 16 in Gaza from shrapnel injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier. Hussein’s sister-in-law and nephew were also injured in the same incident. This is not a tragic […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF mourns Hussein Alnajjar, thirteenth colleague killed in Gaza