The sound of crying and beeping medical devices fills the small room. Nurses rush from bed to bed, checking vital signs. Mothers push oxygen masks onto the faces of their children. The emergency room (ER) doctor bursts through the swinging doors of the pediatric ER in Boost hospital in Helmand. “I have 17 patients waiting […]
Read More… from Afghanistan: Pressure grows on hospitals, as pediatric patient numbers rise
Since the beginning of 2025, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has experienced a concerning increase in epidemics, particularly measles and cholera. These outbreaks are occurring at a time of escalating violence and insecurity in the country, while fears of how recent cuts to international humanitarian assistance will impact the situation continue to grow. Resources to […]
Faced with deepening gaps in international aid and rising humanitarian needs, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is increasingly stepping in to provide water and sanitation services for hundreds of thousands of refugees and residents across eastern Chad. With particularly high temperatures in recent months, the daily search for clean water has become a relentless […]
Read More… from Chad: Water crisis intensifies as temperatures soar and funds shrink
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing a sharp and unprecedented rise in acute malnutrition among Palestinians in Gaza. At MSF’s clinics in Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza and Gaza City in the north, we are seeing the highest number of malnutrition cases ever recorded by our teams. More than 700 pregnant and breastfeeding […]
Read More… from Palestine: Acute malnutrition reaches an all-time high in two MSF facilities
After four years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has decided to end our program providing medical care, mental health care and social support to migrants in Honduras. This decision was made following a significant decrease in the number of migrants transiting through the country and the existing humanitarian response in the area. Migration flows […]
Read More… from Honduras: MSF phases out it’s Danlí migrant care project
A recent retrospective mortality survey of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff and their families reveals the appalling death rate of Israel’s all-out war on Gaza, especially among children. These findings are consistent with conflict-related figures provided by Gaza’s Ministry of Health (MoH). The survey was run by MSF’s research arm Epicentre, and […]
The Kunduz Trauma Center in northern Afghanistan sees an average of more than 1,000 patients a month seeking urgent, trauma-related care. Many patients who have experienced the loss of a limb face financial hardship, making it difficult to afford the mobility aid devices they may need. To help respond to their needs, teams of technicians with Doctors […]
Read More… from Afghanistan: Building crutches, walkers and stretchers from scratch
I’ve just returned home to Canada after several months working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Sudan, a country facing one of the most urgent and underreported humanitarian crises in the world right now. Since the start of the war in April 2023, the UN estimates that more than 13 million people have been […]
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Five months after the launch of the Israeli military operation ‘Iron Wall,’ more than 40,000 people in the northern West Bank remain forcibly displaced, cut off from their homes with limited access to basic services and healthcare. This large-scale military campaign has seen Israeli forces raid and violently empty well-established refugee camps. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mourns and condemns the loss of former colleague Abdullah Hammad, who was killed by Israeli forces on July 3. Israeli forces deliberately targeted a group of people, including Abdullah, without warning as they waited for humanitarian assistance trucks. At least 16 people were killed in total, according to medical […]
Read More… from Palestine: Israeli forces kill former MSF colleague Abdullah Hammad