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USA: The first 100 days of a growing global health and humanitarian emergency

New York, April 24, 2025—Three months since the Trump administration first suspended all international assistance pending review, the US has terminated much of its funding for global health and humanitarian programs, dismantled the federal government architecture for oversight of these...

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Palestine: Gaza has become a “mass grave” for Palestinians and those helping them

Jerusalem, Palestine- As Israeli forces resume and expand their military offensive by air, ground and sea on the Gaza Strip, Palestine, forcibly displacing people and deliberately blocking essential aid, Palestinian lives are once again being systematically destroyed, warns Médecins Sans...

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DRC: MSF condemns the shooting that left one person dead in the Kyeshero hospital

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo- Faced with a resurgence of violent incidents affecting healthcare services in the ongoing conflict in the provinces of North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) once again...

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Syria: MSF opens emergency room in Daraya

Daraya, Syria- After 14 years of war, Syria has been left with large-scale destruction, massive displacement, economic hardship and a lack of basic services, including healthcare. In response, international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has started planning...

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Gaza: Amongst the rubble of a shattered ceasefire, water becomes another weapon of war

JERUSALEM – In Gaza, Palestine, in the midst of a shattered ceasefire and more deaths, another tactic of war is playing out as Israeli authorities essentially block access to water by cutting electricity and fuel from entering Gaza, warns Médecins...

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Sudan: Mass influxes of wounded patients to hospitals across as ‘war on people’ continues

Sudan: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in three different parts of Sudan - Khartoum, North Darfur and South Darfur states - treated mass influxes of war wounded patients as the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid...

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Sudan: MSF Condemns RSF Violent Attack on Bashair Teaching Hospital in Khartoum

Khartoum, December 20, 2024 - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the violent incursion by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) into the emergency room of Bashair Teaching Hospital in South Khartoum on 18 December. The attackers fired weapons inside the emergency...

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Sudan: 16% of war-wounded patients at South Khartoum Hospital are children

KHARTOUM/BRUSSELS Approximately one in six war-wounded patients treated at the Bashair Teaching Hospital in south Khartoum since January 2024 have been under the age of 15, medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Many suffered gunshot, blast and shrapnel...

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Bridging gaps, building solidarity: MSF South Asia’s Health and Humanity Summit elevates women’s voices and champions collaborative solutions to regional humanitarian challenges

29 August 2024, Colombo : The 2nd edition of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders South Asia’s Health and Humanity Summit, held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 29th August 2024 sparked a crucial dialogue on issues affecting women health, people...

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Ukraine: Attack on Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv

In one of the largest missile attacks on Ukraine, the country’s largest children’s hospital, Okhmatdyt Children’s hospital, was hit on 8 July 2024,  resulting in deaths and injuries.Children with serious medical conditions, some requiring critical life support are waiting for evacuation or re-hospitalisation...

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Chad: MSF brings life-saving essentials to Sudan’s refugees in ‘humanitarian void’

Adré, Chad – June 27, 2024 - As the rainy season begins in Chad, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is significantly scaling up its activities in eastern Chad for refugees who fled the war in Sudan. Our teams have...

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Tragic shipwreck off the Italian coast: Flash quote from Marco Bertotto, Head of Operations MSF Italy

Faced with yet another heartbreaking count, 21 bodies and over 60 missing in just 10 days in the Mediterranean Sea, the institutional silence is shameful. It is a silence that disregards the pain of survivors, a dehumanizing void that is...

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