A burn injury is more than just a wound – it is a prolonged sentence of suffering, and profoundly so in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Many people have extensive burns covering large portions of their bodies – some as much as 40 per cent of their total body surface. After over 19 months of attacks […]
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Every epidemic begins with a suspicion – a sudden rise in illness, recurring symptoms and the first severely ill patients. In crisis zones, infectious diseases can spread at lightning speed. Every minute counts when trying to contain them. The first 72 hours are critical: we need to act fast and strategically to save lives and […]
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Three months since the United States administration first suspended all international assistance pending review, the U.S. has terminated much of its funding for global health and humanitarian programs, dismantled the federal government architecture for oversight of these activities and fired many of the key staff responsible for implementation. Patients around the world are scrambling to […]
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To improve patients’ healthcare in northern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is embracing solar energy to power the hospitals we support, facilities which have historically depended on expensive fuel-intensive generators. By moving to renewable energy, communities in the region now have better, more sustainable access to critical medical devices, medication and infrastructure. Moments […]
Read More… from Nigeria: Harnessing solar power improves care in northern hospitals
On the evening of April 18, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) health worker was shot dead in his home in Masisi town, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by a gunman in a military uniform. A nurse at Masisi general referral hospital, he is the second MSF staff member to be killed […]
Read More… from Democratic Republic of Congo: Second MSF colleague shot dead in Masisi
Following the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) large-scale ground offensive on Zamzam camp that started on April 11, hundreds of thousands of people have joined the communities already besieged and deprived of lifesaving assistance in El Fasher, the neighbouring capital city of North Darfur. In Tawila, further west, overwhelmed Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams […]
My name is Liban and I come from Hilmo village in the Galbuduud region of Somalia. I never imagined I’d find myself far from home, in a hospital, fighting tuberculosis. But here I am, and I want to share my story: how this illness crept into my life, how it changed everything, and how I’m […]
Faced with a resurgence of violent incidents affecting healthcare services in the ongoing conflict in the provinces of North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) once again condemns in the strongest possible terms the use of weapons in and around healthcare facilities. The latest example […]
Read More… from Goma, DRC: Shooting leaves one person dead in the Kyeshero hospital
As Israeli forces resume and expand their military offensive by air, ground and sea on the Gaza Strip, forcibly displacing people and deliberately blocking essential assistance, Palestinian lives are once again being systematically destroyed, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). A series of deadly attacks by Israeli forces have shown a blatant disregard for […]
Read More… from Palestine: Gaza has become a “mass grave” for Palestinians and those helping them
As the war in Sudan between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) enters its third year, people remain unseen, bombed, besieged, displaced and deprived of food, medical care and basic vital services. Sixty per cent of the country’s 50 million people need humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations (UN), and […]