MSF is urging immediate action after screening results reveal a catastrophic malnutrition crisis across Northwest Nigeria Abuja, 9 September 2024: One out of every four children under the age of five is malnourished in the
As the sun streaks through the small window of the sterile hospital room, warm orange lines fall on to the side of 17-year-old Karam’s face, highlighting ridges of white scars across his left cheek. As
In the early morning of 28 August, Israeli forces launched a large-scale military incursion in the cities of Tulkarm, Jenin, and Tubas in Palestine. This was the most intense incursion since 2002. A total of 39
Seven ways that victims of snakebite face inequitable treatment Matthieu Chevallier, Global Health Advocacy Officer, MSF Access Campaign The COVID pandemic painfully confirmed what most of us already knew: the terrible inequity that exists among
Juba, South Sudan, 16 September 2024 – A water, sanitation and hygiene crisis is unfolding in Abyei Special Administrative Area, fueling the ongoing hepatitis E outbreak, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Poor sanitation, severe water
MSF-Netherlands is instructed to deregister in the Russian Federation and consequently has to close its programmes in the country. The organisation had been working in Russia since 1992 Moscow/ Amsterdam, 16 September 2024: Thirty-two years
Rome, Italy – On 11 September, the Italian Civil Court of Salerno ordered the suspension of the 60-day administrative detention of the Geo Barents, the search and rescue ship operated by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders
For many years, Sandar Lynn Rashid and her husband Mohd Ayas Hashim, both members of the persecuted Rohingya minority, volunteered for Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine State. Ayas
A cholera outbreak is gripping across central and eastern Sudan bringing yet more risk, death and misery to people already bruised by the country’s brutal war. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams are supporting by
Dr Tejshri Shah, General Director of MSF and a paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases, recently returned from North Kivu, an eastern province of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). DRC is the country at the epicentre of the
Abuja, 9 September 2024: One out of every four children under the age of five is malnourished in the Shinkafi and Zurmi areas of Nigeria’s Zamfara state, according to a mass screening conducted in June
On Tuesday, September 3, a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance carrying a patient in critical condition was stopped by police in Port-au-Prince and detained, preventing our team from providing the necessary care. The patient was
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