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Central African Republic: Spike in attacks against staff and patients in Batangafo threaten continuation of healthcare

Posted on 1 September 2023 (1 September 2023) by

Humanitarian workers, patients and their caretakers are suffering unbearable levels of violence perpetrated by local armed groups while moving around the town of Batangafo, in northern Central African Republic (CAR), says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Two grave incidents in the space of less than a week are jeopardising our ability to continue providing […]

Chad: MSF appeals for immediate response to Sudanese refugee crisis

Posted on 31 August 2023 (31 August 2023) by

Patients waiting for triage at the MSF clinic under a shade in Andre camp, Chad.

The conflict in Sudan has led to the displacement of more than four million people, 3.3 million of whom are displaced within Sudan itself. More than 380,000 people have crossed into eastern Chad, most of whom have sought refuge in camps and settlements in and around the border town of Adre. Teams from international medical […]

Haiti: MSF fully reopens Tabarre hospital following armed intrusion

Posted on 29 August 2023 (29 August 2023) by

Two doctors undertaking an emergency surgery on a patient at MSF's Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) fully resumed medical services at its Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince today, after an armed intrusion on July caused the organization suspend admissions in the trauma centre. “We are pleased to resume all activities and be at the service of the public once again,” said Mumuza Muhindo, MSF country director […]

Fighting dengue with mosquitoes: buzzing innovation to protect people from deadly disease

Posted on 28 August 2023 (28 August 2023) by

MSF team member distributing jars containing adult mosquitoes with Wolbachia in Tegucigalpa.

To combat a rapidly growing public health crisis in Honduras, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is working closely with local communities and health authorities to prevent dengue and other viruses transmitted by mosquitoes. MSF, the Honduran Ministry of Health, the World Mosquito Program, and the National Autonomous University of Honduras are partnering with local […]

Central African Republic: A Forgotten Health Emergency

Posted on 24 August 2023 (24 August 2023) by

An MSF health promoter talking to a group of women waiting for consultation at the Bangassou Regional University Hospital in Central African Republic.

In the shadow of conflict, the Central African Republic is grappling with a decades-long health crisis. Here, in a country of 5.5 million people, access to healthcare is all but impossible and life expectancy is little more than 54 years. For years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) repeated calls for more action from governments […]

Medical needs increasing for Rohingya in Bangladesh as funding stagnates

Posted on 22 August 2023 (29 August 2023) by

Six years after an unprecedented exodus of Rohingya people1 from Myanmar to Bangladesh, medical needs in the world’s largest refugee camp remain pressing and care increasingly inadequate. In a global context marked by multiple large-scale humanitarian crises, international funding allocated to the humanitarian response for these one million stateless people is under increased pressure year […]

My love-hate relationship with the letter M

Posted on 21 August 2023 (21 August 2023) by

Julie Papango is a clinical laboratory scientist from the Philippines. She has helped set up Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) laboratories in Cambodia, Uganda, Papua New Guinea, Ethiopia and South Sudan. In 2016, Papango immigrated to New York and currently works as a travelling lab scientist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. I have a […]

Rohingya: Two crows, a banyan tree, and leaving a trace for the future

Posted on 21 August 2023 (29 August 2023) by

Two MSF staff walking through the Bangladesh refugee camps.

In the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is partnering with a Rohingya community to bear witness to the challenges, experiences and survival of Rohingya people. Laid out on a wooden panel in the backyard of an MSF health facility in Kutupalong refugee camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, […]

MSF refuses to sign ViiV’s last-minute NDA for access to most-effective HIV prevention drug CAB-LA

Posted on 17 August 2023 (29 August 2023) by

A clinician picking ARVs for a patient at Maram Dispensary in Ndhiwa sub county, Homa Bay County.

Signing confidentiality clauses on supply & pricing blocks transparency and accountability Today, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) asked ViiV Healthcare to withdraw conditions in negotiations for a purchase agreement that are holding up procurement of the preventative HIV drug cabotegravir long-acting (CAB-LA) for key and vulnerable populations*, due to the pharmaceutical corporation’s last-minute insertion of terms […]

Not just numbers – MSF teams see an alarming rise of measles in Yemen

Posted on 17 August 2023 (18 August 2023) by

Two midwives in the maternity department room in Lankien, South Sudan.

Over the past three years there has been a substantial increase in the number of children admitted to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospitals in Yemen for measles. In the first half of 2023, the number of measles patients received in MSF-supported facilities has nearly tripled, at almost 4,000, compared to the whole of […]