In September 2025, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) concluded our Cross River project after three years of collaboration with the state Ministry of Health (MoH). We provided free, comprehensive healthcare to thousands of people living in Akor and Old Ndibeji, near the Nigerian-Cameroonian border. Launched in May 2022, the project supported two general healthcare […]
Read More… from Nigeria: MSF hands over Cross River project after three years of medical care
Stories from women in some of the world’s most remote places reveal that the challenges of giving birth safely are strikingly similar across continents. And they are preventable. Three women living in vastly different places are brought together by shared challenges during pregnancy: Hermina in Central African Republic (CAR), Murjanatu in northern Nigeria and Sabera […]
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The wards of the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported hospital in Gummi, Nigeria, are rarely quiet during the rainy season. Mothers sit close to metal beds, watching over children facing fevers, convulsions and exhaustion. Outside, the rain brings relief from the heat. But inside the hospital’s walls, it brings a surge of complicated malaria […]
Every year, millions of children around the world suffer from malnutrition — a crisis that is all too visible in their frail bodies and tired eyes. But what is often less visible, yet just as devastating, are the psychological wounds that malnutrition inflicts on both children and their caregivers. Over the years, the upward surge […]
Read More… from Nigeria: Addressing mental health and malnutrition together
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 […]
At Jahun general hospital in northern Nigeria, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams provide reconstructive surgery, mental health care and rehabilitation for women with obstetric fistulas. Around 300 women benefit from these services every year. “We don’t see fistulas in [high income] countries because there’s access to cesarean sections or suction cups, but here in […]
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
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in partnership with the Sokoto state Ministry of Health, is encouraging community members in Sokoto to participate in a vaccination campaign – the goal is to help reduce the number of children suffering from potentially fatal diseases including measles and diphtheria. These diseases can cause long-term complications if contracted. In […]
Read More… from Nigeria: MSF and Sokoto state launch vaccination campaign to reduce deadly diseases
Too many children with TB are neither tested nor treated, with many countries failing at the first hurdle: updating policy guidelines in line with WHO recommendations. A new report released by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), shows that children with tuberculosis (TB) continue to be left behind in the global effort to end the […]
Read More… from MSF calls for urgent action as governments and donors are failing children with TB