Global Fund crisis threatens progress against HIV, TB, Malaria

November 17, 2025

MSF Warns: Pending Global Fund Replenishment Crisis Threatens Decades of Progress Against HIV, TB, and Malaria.Investments Must Be Sustained to Prevent Catastrophic Cuts and Soaring Patient CostsNovember 17th, 2025: Ahead of the Global Fund’s Eighth Replenishment Summit in Johannesburg, Doctors...

Kenya: Test and treat approach for malaria treatment

November 10, 2025

Since mid-September, MSF emergency team has been in Turkana responding to a surge in malaria cases in Turkwell, Naipa and Kotaruk areas. Many people in these communities face challenges getting medical care in time. This is why community agency through...

Burundi: Triple protection for children against malaria in Cibitoke

October 2, 2025

In Burundi, malaria has been the leading cause of hospitalisation and death among young children for years. To reduce the risks and consequences of this life-threatening disease, MSF has introduced an innovative ‘triple protection’ approach in one of the country’s...

Burundi: MSF closes second emergency intervention for Congolese refugees in Musenyi

September 1, 2025

Since the start of the year, tens of thousands of people have fled ongoing instability in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), seeking refuge in neighbouring Burundi. In the south-east of the country, more than 17,000 refugees are...

Kenya: Raging floods raise the risk of cholera and malaria

July 12, 2024

Raging floods have hit Kenya, killing nearly 200 people and displacing tens of thousands in Nairobi and other parts of the country, as heavy rainfall continues to batter the country since March. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Kenya started...

Climate change: Malaria on the rise with healthcare out of reach

April 25, 2024

Madagascar is one of the countries most affected by malaria. According to the Ministry of Public Health, the reported number of malaria cases in 2023 exceeded the national epidemic threshold: 2.8 million cases and 400 deaths were recorded, compared to...

South Sudan: Communities prepare for renewed flooding ahead of rainy season

August 1, 2023

In 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...

Brazil: MSF responds to indigenous health crisis in the Amazon

July 17, 2023

The vast area of the Amazon Basin has always presented a challenge when it comes to providing healthcare to the Indigenous people who live there. But in recent years, the complexity has increased, as an absence of measures to protect...

Helping tackle malnutrition and malaria in Angola

July 10, 2023

Malnutrition and malaria are common in remote communities in Angola, especially during peaks of drought and heavy rain. Women and their children are most affected. For the last year, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has collaborated with local health...

Madagascar: Struggling To Survive A Triple Crisis

April 27, 2023

In Madagascar, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing an alarming rate of malnutrition in southeastern districts where families are dealing with a triple crisis of food insecurity, malaria, and extreme weather events. Between January and April over 1,200 children...

Malawi: Managing cervical cancer in a country with limited treatment options

February 5, 2023

Cervical cancer accounts for 37 per cent of new cancers in women in Malawi. Since 2018, MSF has been working to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer and bring down deaths from the disease in the districts of Blantyre and...

Nigeria: Extra-long malaria season in Borno claims lives

December 16, 2020

Nigeria has some of the highest number of deaths from malaria worldwide. Usually, peak malaria season takes place during the rainy season from August to mid-October, when mosquitoes breed, after which patient numbers begin to decrease. This year, however, medical teams from Doctors...