Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that tens of thousands of displaced people in the northern West Bank, Palestine, are without proper shelter, essential services and access to healthcare. Following the January 2025 ceasefire in Gaza, Israel launched the “Iron Wall” military operation in the occupied West Bank, forcibly displacing thousands and leaving them […]
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Despite the challenges facing female healthcare workers in Afghanistan, in Lashkar Gah, MSF’s all-women maternity team are helping thousands of women to give birth safely every year. Obstetrician-gynecologist Pauline Lynch shares the story of one woman… They arrived on a motorbike. It’s hard to imagine the journey, because Jamila* was heavily pregnant and having repeated […]
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On April 28, Canadians will vote in a federal election that is taking place in a period of major global upheaval. The Members of Parliament that Canadians will elect will decide how Canada responds to a world experiencing alarming levels of conflict and crisis, and where hundreds of millions of people’s lives, safety and dignity […]
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Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all countries and international donors to prioritize and ensure sustained investments for diagnosing, treating and preventing tuberculosis (TB) for all – especially children, who remain the most at risk. Every three minutes, a child dies of TB. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that […]
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is shocked and saddened by the killing of our colleague Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal by an Israeli airstrike on his apartment building in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza, Palestine. Along with hundreds of others across the Gaza Strip, Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal was killed in the early morning of […]
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As the ripple effect of cuts in the humanitarian sector continue to reverberate around the world, more than one million Rohingya refugees remain confined to camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Last week the World Food Programme made an alarming announcement that they plan to cut food rations in half due to funding shortfalls. We’re talking […]
Read More… from Bangladesh: MSF warns of acute malnutrition crisis among Rohingya refugees
In the early hours of March 18, renewed attacks on parts of Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health, hundreds of people have been killed. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified by the attacks launched by Israel on March 18 on the people of Gaza, shattering the nearly two-month-old ceasefire. Out of the […]
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemn the intentional opening of fire on four clearly marked MSF vehicles while we were seeking safety for staff amid escalating violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Violence close to the Turgeau emergency centre has forced MSF to suspend again activities in the hospital on March 15 and evacuate our […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Afghanistan have reported a surge in measles patients at three MSF-supported hospitals since January. While measles is endemic in Afghanistan, such a high number of cases so early in the year is cause for alarm. At least one child in Afghanistan has died from measles every day […]
Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), briefed the United Nations Security Council today on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by war in Sudan, calling for an end to violence against civilians and a new commitment to deliver essential aid. The war in Sudan is above all a “war on people,” Lockyear […]
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