DRC: Civilians caught in crossfire in the Kivus
May 27, 2024Marie Brun is an emergency coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Goma, in the province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. She provides an update on the intensification of fighting between several armed groups, including the M23, and...
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Syria: “Where growing medical needs converge with shrinking funds”
May 24, 2024Amman, Brussels – International financial support to the health system in northern Syria is in decline. The medical needs in the region far exceed the available medical services, with Syrian people bearing the greatest burden due to limited support and...
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Returning to South Sudan after the civil war: “How are we again going to survive?”
May 22, 2024After years of conflict, the struggle to return homeIn the early morning in Kajo Keji, Central Equatoria, what used to be a very busy market slowly opens. A few people set up their stands, while small groups of children in...
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Closed Ports, Empty Shelves: Haiti Urgently Needs Medical Supplies
May 22, 2024Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 21st May, 2024 – Since the end of February, Port-au-Prince has been engulfed in unprecedented violence, cutting off the Haitian capital from the outside world following the closure of the airport and ports. The escalating insecurity has severely...
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South Sudan: health workers bring lifeline to remote areas
May 21, 2024Amid insecurity, semi-nomadic populations, just like the rest of South Sudan, suffer from climate change, causing both increased flooding and more severe droughts. In the latest years, water and food has been scarce, and cattle keepers and farmers had to...
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Kenya: Reimagining a patient centered model of care in the management of Diabetes and Hypertension
May 21, 2024Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma, Epilepsy, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, among others, account for up to 39 in every 100 deaths in Kenya. In 2019 an internal review in the inpatient department at the Homa Bay Country...
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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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Mali: increased surgical needs among women and children in Niono
May 20, 2024In December 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) began providing surgical activities at the Niono hospital in central Mali. MSF teams have now renovated the department, as well as providing additional resources to cater to the needs. People living in Niono...
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Afghanistan: Measles surge necessitates strengthening of prevention measures
May 20, 2024Ten-month-old Bilal lies in bed at Mazar-i-Sharif regional hospital, in Afghanistan’s Balkh province, where he is being treated for measles and pneumonia, watched over by his mother Zakia. When Bilal fell ill with a fever, Zakia took him to one privately-run...
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MSF calls for urgent international help for Sudanese refugees in Chad as major crisis looms
August 14, 2023As people continue to flee the conflict in Sudan, more than 358,000 refugees have arrived at the border town Adré, in eastern Chad. Refugee camps are being built, but the shelter and basic facilities available in the camps are wholly...
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Clean water: a scarce resource for displaced people around Goma
August 14, 2023Access to clean water is a major challenge for the hundreds of thousands of displaced people who have been surviving for months in makeshift camps located on the outskirts of Goma. Due to the contagion of waterborne diseases such as...
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Khartoum: Lack of essential visas for MSF staff threatens life-saving care in hospital
August 10, 2023Without visas being urgently granted by the Sudanese authorities, MSF may soon be forced to withdraw its support to the Turkish Hospital in Khartoum. Visa applications for emergency staff – including surgeons, nurses, and other specialists – have been pending for...
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