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 […]
With the United Nations General Assembly underway, the leaders of more than 20 major aid agencies working in Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), are calling on world leaders to urgently intervene after a UN commission concluded that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Strip. This determination comes after a nearly […]
Read More… from Palestine: World leaders must act now to respond to genocide in Gaza
In 2024, the MSF team at Unguwa Uku hospital in Kano, Nigeria, admitted 46,304 children for malnutrition. The factors behind the crisis are complex, including climate change, armed conflict and the spiralling cost of living. Most children can be treated at home with special therapeutic food, whilst those with complications need more intensive care and are […]
On the afternoon of Monday, 15 September, Israeli Forces fired upon a clearly identified Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water truck while it was distributing 10,000 liters of drinking water in the neighborhood of Sheikh Radwan, in the eastern part of Gaza City. The vehicle’s route and schedule had been communicated in advance to […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF condemns Israeli attack on MSF water distribution site in Gaza City
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is appalled and saddened by the death of our colleague Hussein Alnajjar who died on Sept. 16 in Gaza from shrapnel injuries caused by an Israeli airstrike near his tent five days earlier. Hussein’s sister-in-law and nephew were also injured in the same incident. This is not a tragic […]
Read More… from Palestine: MSF mourns Hussein Alnajjar, thirteenth colleague killed in Gaza
On Sept. 4, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) officially declared a new outbreak of the Zaire strain of Ebola in Bulape health zone, part of Mweka territory in Kasaï province. This remote region, located in south-central DRC, is difficult to access, with poor road conditions, no cargo airport and […]
Read More… from Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF supports Ebola outbreak response in Kasaï
More than one million people in Gaza are facing renewed terror after receiving an emergency order to evacuate Gaza City ahead of a major ground offensive by the Israeli military. For many, escape is impossible – elderly adults, critically unwell patients, heavily pregnant or wounded people. Those left behind have been handed a death sentence. […]
Read More… from Palestine: Doctors Can’t Stop Genocide, World Leaders Can