Cameroon: Local women leaders essential in tackling malnutrition and infant mortality
March 10, 2025Since 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working with influential local women in Cameroon's Far North region, where insecurity and local practices can severely affect access to critical healthcare. Through strategies that see them as key intermediaries, women known...
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Haiti: Escalating Violence and Worsening Health Needs
March 7, 2025Port-au-Prince, Haiti- Since 24 February, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Haiti have witnessed a surge in violence, increasing the number of wounded people and medical needs. Clashes between armed groups and police are intensifying, leaving civilians trapped under...
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Sudan: Over 800 hospitalised and dozens dead from waterborne infection in White Nile state
February 28, 2025Kosti, Sudan- Dozens of people have died, and over 800 are being treated for symptoms of acute watery diarrhoea, dehydration, vomiting, and sunken eyes at the Ministry of Health cholera treatment centre in Kosti Teaching Hospital, supported by Médecins Sans...
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Nigeria: MSF encourages parents to participate in ongoing vaccination campaign in collaboration with Sokoto state government
February 28, 2025Sokoto, Nigeria- The international humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières also known as Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in partnership with the Sokoto state Ministry of Health, is encouraging community members in Sokoto to participate in a vaccination campaign that will help...
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Sudan: MSF forced to halt its activities as violence engulfed Zamzam camp in North Darfur
February 24, 2025The current escalation of attacks and fighting in and around Zamzam camp for displaced people near El Fasher in North Darfur is making it impossible for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to continue providing medical assistance in such dangerous conditions. Despite...
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Eswatini: ‘We Are Loved’ clinic turns one
February 19, 2025Launched on 14 February 2024, the Sitsandziwe clinic has been busy over the past year providing comprehensive sexual health services, with a strong focus on mental health, to marginalised communities. These include adolescents, young women, LGBTQ+, factory workers and university...
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Sudan: Love amid cholera
February 14, 2025I am Majda Rizq, a Sudanese woman filled with compassion for my country. I grew up surrounded by my large family in Sudan, where I learned, worked, married, and established my own family.Looking back, it feels as though the life...
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Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk
February 13, 2025The decision by the US government to temporarily freeze funding to the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) alongside all other foreign aid for at least a 90-day period has had immediate effects on people living with HIV (PLHIV),...
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Sudan: Mass influxes of wounded patients to hospitals across as ‘war on people’ continues
February 11, 2025Sudan: 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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Afghanistan: “It is difficult to know that we are something less”
January 13, 2023The future of female patients and health workers in Afghanistan is being threatened by the recent decree issued by the Ministry of Economy prohibiting women from working for non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Though health workers, including MSF staff, are currently exempted...
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