Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, together with staff from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, provided medical assistance to patients injured during a Russian drone attack on a passenger bus in Kherson on March 11. “One of the patients is a female medical worker who was returning home from her shift when the drone […]
Read More… from Ukraine: MSF provides emergency care for bus passengers wounded in a drone attack
Hundreds of thousands of people in Akobo, Jonglei state, are facing an impossible choice as a government-forces-led offensive on the town is imminent, following evacuation orders on March 6. The number of people in the town, currently led by the opposition, includes over 17,000 who were displaced just weeks ago, in the ongoing conflict in […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned for the safety and wellbeing of our staff from Lankien and Pieri in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, following an escalation of violence that has caused many people to flee. On Feb. 3, the MSF hospital in Lankien was hit in an airstrike by the government of […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Dozens of MSF staff remain missing amid escalating violence in Jonglei
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is alarmed by the dramatic escalation in conflict across the Middle East region, following strikes by U.S. and Israeli forces in Iran and Iran’s subsequent retaliatory actions in several countries. MSF is adapting our programs to respond and we are closely monitoring the rapidly evolving humanitarian needs. Across the […]
Read More… from Middle East: MSF adapts programs and prepares to scale up amid escalating conflict
Early on Sunday morning, March 1, large-scale violent clashes occurred in Abiemnhom town, in the northwest of Ruweng administrative area. Local communities have been significantly impacted. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports the Ministry of Health hospital in Abyei town, which has so far received 80 patients with gunshot wounds, including women and children. […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Mass causality in Abiemnhom town
Content accurate as of Feb. 27, 2026. Given evolving administrative and access conditions in Gaza/West Bank, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s registration and operational context may change. This content reflects the most current information available at the time of publication. MSF calls for a massive scale-up of lifesaving assistance and unhindered humanitarian access amid the ongoing catastrophe in […]
Read More… from Palestine: Huge influx of aid urgently needed amid catastrophic conditions in Gaza
Adam R. Houston is the medical policy and advocacy advisor for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières Canada. Srinivas Murthy is a clinical associate professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Flying under the radar in the current parliamentary session are two studies by Canadian Members of Parliament, each with potentially […]
“To be ‘alive’ is the lowest bar and the highest achievement for everyone” MSF health promotion manager Katsa Juliana Shea joined MSF in January 2022 and has since worked in Bangladesh, Haiti and South Sudan. She shares her experience. The absurdity of this war lies in its contradictions: the way life keeps going in parallel […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs the recovery mental health centre in Vinnytsia, where we have been providing specialized psychotherapeutic care since September 2023. This includes mental health support and treatment for people experiencing symptoms of war-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD often appears alongside anxiety, depression, insomnia and physical symptoms, as well as […]
Death and the celebration of life have become part of the same day — and sometimes I still don’t know how to process that. It has been almost nine months since I stepped away from my role in Ukraine, yet I am still trying to understand how war and ordinary life coexist: How people continue […]
Read More… from Ukraine: “Death and… life have become part of the same day”