After careful monitoring and assessment, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has partially resumed our activities in Gaza City, after being forced to leave on Sep. 24, 2025, amid the intensified Israeli offensive. On Oct. 15, MSF reopened our wound care clinic in Gaza City. Since then, our teams have received more than 640 patients — the majority of […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF has resumed activities in Gaza City
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on governments around the world to drastically and urgently increase medical evacuations for thousands of patients who are unable to access the care they need in Gaza. These evacuations must be accompanied by a sustained effort to maintain the fragile ceasefire which has been violated multiple times […]
Read More… from Palestine: Ceasefire not the end of extreme suffering in Gaza
Rachel Yantzi is a nurse and mobile support technician with a specialization in pediatric and neonatal palliative care. She works with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in different contexts to improve the quality of patients’ care. She shares the five most common misconceptions about her work and what palliative care really means. That it means stopping active care One of the biggest misconceptions is […]
When I tell people I disinfect ambulances and isolation wards for a living, most of them think I am crazy, especially people my age. Some of my friends are busy with TikTok dance challenges or chasing soft life dreams and here I am, deep in protective gear, spraying down virus-contaminated zones for eight hours straight. Sometimes […]
Read More… from Kenya: Behind the mask – a hygienist’s response to mpox
Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) is deeply disappointed that Dr Mohammed Obeid, a respected orthopaedic surgeon, and long-time MSF colleague, remains detained and was not released as part of the recent ceasefire agreement. We call for his immediate and unconditional release. Dr Obeid was arrested on 26 October 2024 by Israeli forces during a […]
Read More… from MSF calls for the immediate release of our detained colleague
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region faces some of the world’s longest and most complex crises. From Palestine to Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon, people have endured wars, occupation, economic collapse and forced displacement. Entire communities have lived under chronic pressure and uncertainty for decades. These conditions can have a profound impact on […]
Read More… from Middle East and North Africa: Behind the armour, men’s mental health
Access to health care has become severely limited amid a broader crisis of violence and insecurity in Haiti. In response, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting the reopening of the Isaïe Jeanty maternity hospital, one of the largest in the country, which had closed during a wave of violence in early 2024. In […]
Read More… from Haiti: MSF supports the reopening of a major maternity hospital in the capital
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to permanently close our emergency centre in Turgeau due to increasing insecurity in the centre of Port-au-Prince. This health facility had temporarily closed its doors and suspended its activities in March 2025 following a serious incident targeting MSF. “For several weeks now, the area surrounding the […]
Every year, millions of children around the world suffer from malnutrition — a crisis that is all too visible in their frail bodies and tired eyes. But what is often less visible, yet just as devastating, are the psychological wounds that malnutrition inflicts on both children and their caregivers. Over the years, the upward surge […]
Read More… from Nigeria: Addressing mental health and malnutrition together
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and artists unite to call for urgent action to protect at-risk communities with the release of the song “Oya,” ahead of the crucial COP30 climate talks in Brazil. Oya is an artistic initiative blending music and contemporary African dance to draw attention to the health consequences of climate change […]