After almost four years in Panama, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has ended medical and humanitarian activities in the country. Our work focused primarily on providing care to migrants in transit to North America. The closure is due to a significant decrease in migration flows resulting from changes in regional policies. “We arrived in […]
Read More… from Panama: MSF concludes assistance activities for migrants
As Haiti’s capital sinks deeper into a crisis marked by violent clashes between armed groups and police forces, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reports a rise in the number of civilian casualties arriving at our facilities. Our teams are witnessing the impact of this violence on the availability of healthcare in the capital. Nearly […]
Read More… from Haiti: Health system and civilians trapped in escalating violence
It is with profound sorrow and outrage that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirms the death of our colleague Abed El Hameed Qaradaya. Despite the care provided by the medical teams, he succumbed to his critical shrapnel injuries on Oct. 5, following the attack on Oct. 2, in which our colleague Omar Hayek was […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF is devastated by the death of colleague Abed El Hameed
“Can’t you find better people to treat?” That was the question we were asked, as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), during a meeting with an armed group some years ago. We were discussing one of our hospitals on a frontline and the fact that we were treating people who were perceived as the enemy. […]
“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 […]