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
In early May, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched an emergency response to a cholera outbreak in Lomera, South Kivu, where a gold rush and poor sanitation has fuelled the rapid spread of the disease. Our teams have worked around the clock to provide care and improve the community’s access to clean water, vaccinating more […]
Read More… from Democratic Republic of Congo: Cholera in the wake of a gold rush
Mass atrocities are underway in Sudan’s North Darfur region, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns in the new report “Besieged, Attacked, Starved.” We are urging warring parties to halt indiscriminate and ethnically targeted violence and facilitate an immediate large-scale humanitarian response. MSF is extremely concerned about the threats of a full-blown assault on the […]
“We are encouraged to see global solidarity in support of Gavi’s next five years of work, but it comes with a funding shortfall,” says Daniela Garone, physician and MSF International medical coordinator. “This should not deter Gavi and donors from stepping up and ensuring stronger efforts to reach children in humanitarian settings with immunization. We […]
The Israeli-U.S. food distribution scheme in Gaza, launched one month ago, is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies. With over 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeking food, this scheme is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian assistance and must be immediately dismantled. Doctors […]
The road from El Fasher, capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, to eastern Chad can take up to 10 days to travel, and is fraught with violence and hardship for the people who take it in search of safety. An estimated 80,000 people have made this journey from North Darfur since the end of April, yet the humanitarian response […]
Read More… from Chad: Sudanese refugees safe from bombs, but struggling to survive
In early June, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Ministry of Health (MoH) teams conducted a large-scale vaccination campaign in the Masisi health zone in response to the ongoing measles epidemic. Despite the challenging environment marked by insecurity and logistical difficulties due to fighting, together we vaccinated more than 100,000 children. Measles outbreaks […]