Rachel Yantzi is a nurse and mobile support technician with a specialization in pediatric and neonatal palliative care. She works with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in different contexts to improve the quality of patients’ care. She shares the five most common misconceptions about her work and what palliative care really means. That it means stopping active care One of the biggest misconceptions is […]
When I tell people I disinfect ambulances and isolation wards for a living, most of them think I am crazy, especially people my age. Some of my friends are busy with TikTok dance challenges or chasing soft life dreams and here I am, deep in protective gear, spraying down virus-contaminated zones for eight hours straight. Sometimes […]
Read More… from Kenya: Behind the mask – a hygienist’s response to mpox
Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) is deeply disappointed that Dr Mohammed Obeid, a respected orthopaedic surgeon, and long-time MSF colleague, remains detained and was not released as part of the recent ceasefire agreement. We call for his immediate and unconditional release. Dr Obeid was arrested on 26 October 2024 by Israeli forces during a […]
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region faces some of the world’s longest and most complex crises. From Palestine to Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon, people have endured wars, occupation, economic collapse and forced displacement. Entire communities have lived under chronic pressure and uncertainty for decades. These conditions can have a profound impact on […]
Read More… from Middle East and North Africa: Behind the armour, men’s mental health
Access to health care has become severely limited amid a broader crisis of violence and insecurity in Haiti. In response, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting the reopening of the Isaïe Jeanty maternity hospital, one of the largest in the country, which had closed during a wave of violence in early 2024. In […]
Read More… from Haiti: MSF supports the reopening of a major maternity hospital in the capital
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to permanently close our emergency centre in Turgeau due to increasing insecurity in the centre of Port-au-Prince. This health facility had temporarily closed its doors and suspended its activities in March 2025 following a serious incident targeting MSF. “For several weeks now, the area surrounding the […]
Every year, millions of children around the world suffer from malnutrition — a crisis that is all too visible in their frail bodies and tired eyes. But what is often less visible, yet just as devastating, are the psychological wounds that malnutrition inflicts on both children and their caregivers. Over the years, the upward surge […]
Read More… from Nigeria: Addressing mental health and malnutrition together
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and artists unite to call for urgent action to protect at-risk communities with the release of the song “Oya,” ahead of the crucial COP30 climate talks in Brazil. Oya is an artistic initiative blending music and contemporary African dance to draw attention to the health consequences of climate change […]
In Khallet Athaba, families are enduring daily harassment, intimidation and violent attacks from Israeli settlers, often under the protection of the Israeli forces According to testimonies from the community, since February 2025, Israeli forces conducted four mass demolitions, reducing more than 85 per cent of homes and shelters to rubble. The destruction has left the […]
Read More… from Palestine: Ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
The announcement of the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza brings a welcome moment of relief for exhausted, starved and grieving Palestinians and a great relief to the families of all hostages — but it comes after more than two years and over 67,000 lost lives. While we welcome the ceasefire, it does not […]
Read More… from Palestine: Ceasefire in Gaza, humanitarian aid must flow immediately