The road to Ariath, in Aweil North cuts through endless stretches of scorched plains in Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, South Sudan. When it rains, the road turns to mud and when it dries, the heat burns through the ground of the cracked earth. It takes one and a half hours by car to reach the small village. Inside a […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Children living with diabetes in remote villages
Ahead of the Global Fund to Fight AIDAs, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria’s Eighth Replenishment Summit in Johannesburg, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for world leaders to meet the Global Fund’s 18 billion USD ($25 billion Canadian) target. Failure to meet this goal risks catastrophic cuts to essential services, threatens the resurgence of HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria and forces the financial burden of healthcare […]
Over the past two years, Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has caused unimaginable loss and devastation. People in Gaza, including our colleagues, have been killed, injured, starved, besieged and displaced. Our colleague Mohammad Al Hawajri, who worked in Gaza as an operating room nurse, recounts how he and his family tried to find safety that […]
Read More… from Palestine: A chance at life amid genocide. A father and son’s journey from Gaza
At the World Conference on Lung Health this week, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released data from our operational research showing the benefits of using the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommended treatment decision algorithms for diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in children. Our findings show that these algorithms can nearly double the number of children who can be started on lifesaving TB treatment. They are guided by scoring systems that allow physicians to start TB […]
Mighty desert, mighty rivers, The flow of life in the heat of passions The depths of the message are hard to reach Standing still in the action The sands and the waters are speaking the same language We are at the crossroad of space and time The hardest is to face what is The tears […]
Read More… from Sudan: The war on people, the choice is ours
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announces the relaunch of our lifesaving search and rescue (SAR) activities on the Mediterranean Sea. This comes almost a year after we were forced to terminate operations with our last rescue vessel, the Geo Barents. Our new rescue vessel Oyvon, which means “hope for the island” in Norwegian, has been refitted and equipped to conduct SAR operations on one of the world’s deadliest migration routes. Oyvon was previously operated as an ambulance vessel in Norway. […]
Read More… from Mediterranean Sea: MSF relaunches search and rescue operations
“As soon as you cross the border and enter Sudan, you immediately feel that you have reached a militarized context.” Moises Saman, Magnum photographer Seeking safety in Chad In June 2023, ethnic cleansing in West Darfur pushed hundreds of thousands of people previously trapped in the city of El Geneina across the border into eastern Chad. […]
Read More… from Sudan and Chad: Surviving tomorrow, the communities displaced by conflict
In densely populated areas of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, cholera can spread rapidly. Multiple factors contribute to this spread: people living in close quarters, displacement due to violence by armed groups, the inadequacy of water and sanitation infrastructure. In response to an increase in cholera cases in October, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a treatment centre in the Bristout neighbourhood of Pétion-Ville, Port-au-Prince. This site, which […]
Read More… from Haiti: How MSF is responding to a resurgence of cholera in Pétion-Ville
Since Nov. 5, local restrictions have been implemented in Herat province requiring female patients, caretakers and staff to wear a burqa to enter public health facilities, including at Herat hospital. This sudden enforcement adds limitations to their participation in everyday life and puts additional barriers that affect women’s ability to access essential healthcare. Between Nov. 5 and Nov. 7, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins […]
As starving people continue to flee atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are providing critical care to people who have reached the town of Tawila. Here, MSF is witnessing extreme levels of acute malnutrition, in what is now the most severe example of a […]
Read More… from Sudan: People facing extreme malnutrition in Sudan’s protracted crisis