I have spent a year watching cholera, a treatable disease, chew through South Sudan. And the hardest question isn’t how to treat it – we know how. The hardest question is this: Why hasn’t the outbreak been contained? Why, one year after the outbreak was declared on Oct. 28, are we still responding to a […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Cholera crisis is a symptom of deeper failures
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) appeals for civilians’ lives to be spared in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, and for them to be allowed to flee to safer areas. Given the ethnic-based violence spiking across Darfur for over two years, and the large-scale massacres committed in Zamzam camp for internally […]
Read More… from Sudan: Civilians must be spared in El Fasher
When Fatima Abdi Ali experienced life‑threatening complications during her seventh pregnancy, she and her husband travelled more than 125 kilometres from Ethiopia to reach Mudug regional hospital in Galkayo North, Somalia. It was the nearest facility equipped for such an emergency. On arrival, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams performed an urgent caesarean section, […]
Read More… from Somalia: Free healthcare supports mothers and children in Mudug region
One of the worst cholera outbreaks in a decade is spreading across Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but the healthcare system remains unequipped to respond to and slow down an outbreak of this scale, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns. Twenty of the country’s 26 provinces are now affected. From January to mid-October, more […]
Read More… from Democratic Republic of Congo: Cholera epidemic rapidly spreading across the country
More than one million people are still being forced to survive on a tiny patch of land in southern Gaza, where conditions are dire and dangerous to their health. Along with the massive destruction of civilian infrastructure and the health system by Israeli forces, this displacement is creating the perfect storm for disease and […]
Since the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic was declared in Bulape, in Kasai province, on Sept. 4, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been supporting the Ministry of Health (MoH) in its response. From the outset, MSF teams have been treating patients and building treatment and isolation centres. Now that the epidemic appears to be […]
Read More… from Democratic Republic of Congo: Four things to know about the Ebola response in Kasai
After careful monitoring and assessment, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has partially resumed our activities in Gaza City, after being forced to leave on Sep. 24, 2025, amid the intensified Israeli offensive. On Oct. 15, MSF reopened our wound care clinic in Gaza City. Since then, our teams have received more than 640 patients — the majority of […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF has resumed activities in Gaza City
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on governments around the world to drastically and urgently increase medical evacuations for thousands of patients who are unable to access the care they need in Gaza. These evacuations must be accompanied by a sustained effort to maintain the fragile ceasefire which has been violated multiple times […]
Read More… from Palestine: Ceasefire not the end of extreme suffering in Gaza
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