CAR: MSF vaccinates thousands of children after arrival of refugees from Sudan

July 19, 2023

This vaccination campaign against measles and other diseases is part of the emergency response launched by the medical organization in the town of Birao, in northern Central African Republic, where refugees from Sudan have been relocated. A Sudanese girl is...

Shortening distances: providing healthcare to indigenous communities in Venezuela’s Delta Amacuro state

July 18, 2023

Rivers serve as roads and tropical rainforest stretches to the horizon in Delta Amacuro state, a vast area bordering the Atlantic Ocean in northeastern Venezuela. Largely inaccessible, this region is home to a large number of Indigenous communities who face...

Kenya: Everyone is welcome at MSF’s youth-friendly health services in Mombasa

July 13, 2023

When an MSF team working in the Kenyan city of Mombasa discovered that there were significant gaps in healthcare for adolescents and young people, they decided to do something about it. The assessment they conducted in May 2021 revealed that,...

MSF expands its maternal health activities in the South of Haiti

May 29, 2023

Nearly two years have passed since a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the Sud department of Haiti on August 14, 2021, killing more than 2,000 people and injuring 12,000. But many communities are still reeling from the destruction. The earthquake...

MSF ‘shaken and appalled’ by looting of its premises in Sudan

May 24, 2023

Khartoum, 23 May - Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) condemns the unacceptable harassment of its staff and the violent looting and occupation of its medical premises and supported facilities in Sudan. Staff and patients are repeatedly facing the trauma...

MSF returns to Calais to provide medical and psychological assistance at the French-British border

May 16, 2023

Calais, 15 May 2023 – On the French-British border, hundreds of people are trying to reach the UK every day, risking their lives for lack of prospects in France or to join relatives in the UK. In Calais, they face...

El Geneina Teaching Hospital, West Darfur: 5 key points on the recent violence and humanitarian needs

May 15, 2023

The looting of El Geneina Teaching Hospital, which is supported by Médecins Sans Frontières-Doctors Without Borders (MSF) since 2021, made headlines in the last week of April.Reports suggest that widespread looting, destruction, and burning of property took place in El...

Haiti: MSF mobile clinics in Port-au-Prince treat people stranded by violence

May 10, 2023

Diana Manilla (MSF Project Coordinator) briefs the team before starting the mobile clinic activities at the MSF office. ©Alexandre Marcou Vulnerable people in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince are caught in a spiral of ongoing violence and insecurity, living under the...

Chad: A new path, Her path

August 10, 2022

What would maternal healthcare look like if it was designed by the women who use it? An MSF team in Chad is working to find out... Noor Cornelissen, MSF project coordinator in Chad, shares that in the new MSF pilot...

A slow road to recovery for the city of two springs: Five years after the battle of Mosul, people still need support

July 7, 2022

In October 2016, the military offensive to retake the city from the Islamic State group (ISg) began. The battle was officially declared “over” five years ago, on 10 July 2017. For the people of Mosul, life has slowly resumed, but...

No Magicians but Doctors Without Borders’ – Sabrina Sharmin MD

January 1, 2012

I came to know about MSF in 2005 while doing a community assessment in a remote village in Afghanistan. At the time, MSF was no longer working there, but the community still remembered their effort. I was surprised and did...