When 13-year-old Mamouch suffered a convulsive seizure at home one night, he fell into his family’s cooking fire in their village in Lankien, Jonglei State. Since the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Lankien was bombed and destroyed in February 2026, his family had to travel more than 50 kilometres to the nearest […]
Read More… from South Sudan: When the river is the only road to healthcare
After a major flashflood struck the Rasuwa district in Nepal, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières team experienced in providing emergency responses has arrived in Nepal to assess people’s immediate needs. MSF stands ready to provide urgent humanitarian and medical assistance. The floods rapidly impacted Timure, Rasuwagadhi and Syabrubesi areas causing significant damage to settlements, […]
Read More… from Nepal: MSF assesses people’s needs after devastating flash floods in Rasuwa district
In 2020, a brutal war erupted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have been killed. Others fled in search of safety, including several thousand who reached the Um Rakuba refugee camp in neighbouring Sudan. Life in refugee camps is difficult. Those who have been displaced are cut off from […]
The cries of children fill the intensive care unit of Nilefa Kiji, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF)’s nutrition facility in Maiduguri, Borno state, Nigeria. Nurses move from bed to bed checking vital signs, dispensing therapeutic milk and reassuring anxious parents. Every child here is suffering from severe acute malnutrition, a condition that continues to […]
In the overcrowded refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar children — who make up half of the 1.3 million refugees — are arriving at medical facilities later, sicker and with complex, overlapping physical and psychological health needs. Nine years after fleeing extreme violence in Myanmar, and with international humanitarian assistance funding fast disappearing families struggle to secure […]
Almost 100 days since the Ebola disease outbreak was declared in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that communities do not have enough support to contain the disease. This outbreak has become the largest and deadliest in the country’s history and continues to spread at an alarming rate within […]
Read More… from Democratic Republic of Congo: 100 days of Ebola disease outbreak
In Port-au-Prince, thousands of women are at risk. Seeing a doctor, obtaining contraceptives, attending prenatal check-ups or receiving care after sexual assault have all become fraught with obstacles. In a capital city where armed violence is undermining an already fragile health system, access to sexual and reproductive healthcare is becoming increasingly limited. Yet it is […]
While the response to the Ebola disease outbreak is mobilizing significant resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns of the need to maintain care and funding for other health crises in the east of the country to prevent a worsening humanitarian situation. Cholera, measles, malaria and violence […]
Providing remote care in a remote hospital Accessing specialized medical care is a challenge in the Central African Republic (CAR). According to the World Bank, there were only seven medical doctors per 100,000 inhabitants in 2023 — a figure covering generalist physicians as well as specialist practitioners. For comparison, the EU average is 415 medical […]
Health Canada’s August announcement that Phase 1 clinical trials have been authorized in Canada for a Bundibugyo virus vaccine is a positive step towards adding a much-needed tool to the Ebola disease outbreak toolkit. However, it also serves as a reminder of how the Government of Canada has failed to provide sufficient support over the […]
Read More… from Canada and the development of a vaccine for Bundibugyo virus