MSF and the Lancet Countdown joint brief 2024
November 6, 2024Every climate action counts: The ripple effect of each failure on health systems in humanitarian settings Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) works with vulnerable and marginalised communities who are disproportionately affected by climate change despite being the...
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Bangladesh: MSF concludes emergency response supporting over 1,900 flood-affected patients in Noakhali
October 28, 2024Following weeks of emergency response in Noakhali, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has handed over its a month-long intervention to the Bangladesh Ministry of Health. MSF launched the emergency project on 5 September 2024 in response to the catastrophic...
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A hostile climate: New report reveals how MSF humanitarian workers and communities are beginning to adapt to the challenges of climate change
August 20, 2024Climate change is having devastating consequences for human health. A new report from MSF’s Humanitarian Action for Climate and Environment (HACE) Initiative and Heidelberg University Institute of Global Health describes how MSF humanitarian workers, patients and communities are experiencing and...
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MSF OCB roadmap to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030
June 7, 2024MSF Operational Center of Brussels (OCB), one of the six MSF headquarters that deploy and manage humanitarian operations worldwide, has published a roadmap to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and lower its environmental footprint. OCB environmental roadmap...
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Brazil: MSF teams aim at supporting most vulnerable in response to Brazil’s biggest climate disaster to date
May 20, 2024Professionals face logistic challenges in order to reach population affected by severe floods in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The situation is catastrophic. When we arrived and traveled through the region by helicopter, we were able to view...
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At COP28, more failure is not an option for vulnerable communities
November 29, 2023Geneva, 23 November 2023 – Too little is being done to protect the most vulnerable people against the negative impacts of climate change, warns international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). World leaders gathering in Dubai for COP28 must take...
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MSF South Asia Health and Humanity Summit: Partnering to build better responses during emergencies
August 17, 202317 August 2023, New Delhi: Setting the agenda for a paradigm shift in health and humanitarian considerations during emergencies, especially in South and Southeast Asia, over 15 practitioners, thought leaders, artists, and over 300 attendees from the social impact space...
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South Sudan: Communities prepare for renewed flooding ahead of rainy season
August 1, 2023In a parched landscape, an MSF tractor roars as it approaches a small village in Dentiuk, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. It is towing a trailer to which a creaking wooden canoe is strapped. “Are you sure we are...
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Kiribati: The remote island nation facing a triple threat to health
May 11, 2023Kiribati is one of the most remote and geographically dispersed countries in the world. It is also one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of the climate crisis. The country faces has described as a triple threat to...
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The triple threat of climate change, conflict, and health emergencies: A deadly mix for the most vulnerable in fragile settings
November 4, 2022Geneva (MSF/ICRC) – Climate change is not a distant threat. It is already dramatically affecting vulnerable people across the globe. In particular, the changing climate is having devastating consequences for people living in conflict situations and those who don’t have...
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MSF commits to reduce carbon emissions to help safeguard the most vulnerable
March 31, 2022The climate emergency is a threat to the future of our planet and the health and well-being of people around the world. The communities we assist are already experiencing the consequences of climate change, and we know that health and...
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MSF warns of health and humanitarian impacts of climate change in new 2021 Lancet Countdown Report
October 27, 2021Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is paying close attention to the impact climate change will have on patients and our emergency humanitarian medical activities. We are already responding to many of the world’s most drastic crises – conflicts, disasters,...
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