Yemen: Children Cannot Wait- Funding Cuts Worsen the Paediatric Care Crisis
April 29, 2026In Hajjah and Hudaydah governates, northern Yemen, shrinking humanitarian funding and withdrawal of many actors from northern areas of the country is leading to the closure or reduction of health services, leaving families with fewer options for care. As nearby...
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Tanzania: No woman should die giving life
April 16, 2026By: Olinzia Kamairo, Midwife Activity Manager, MSF Tanzania In the high-stakes world of humanitarian medicine, there is a silence every midwife fears. It is the stillness of a delivery room where a newborn does not cry, or the heavy stillness...
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Tanzania: Reducing maternal mortality in Liwale
February 2, 2026By Dr. Sarah Meyer, Medical Doctor from Switzerland, shares a story of her first mission with MSF in 2025In the remote dust of Liwale, the distance between a mother’s home and a life-saving surgery isn't just measured in kilometers; it...
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Challenges on access to lifesaving maternal care
January 20, 2026Stories from women in some of the world’s most remote places reveal that challenges of giving birth without losing their lives are strikingly similar across continents. And they are preventable.“I don’t know what will become of her. She’s a girl”Hermina...
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Afghanistan: MSF warns of local restrictions affecting women’s access to healthcare in Herat
November 7, 2025Herat, Afghanistan, 7 November 2025- Since 5 November, local restrictions have been implemented in Herat province requiring female patients, caretakers, and staff to wear a burqa to enter public health facilities, including at Herat hospital. This sudden enforcement adds limitations...
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Somalia: Free healthcare offers a lifeline to mothers and children in Mudug region
October 22, 2025When Fatima Abdi Ali, 32, experienced life‑threatening complications in her seventh pregnancy, she and her husband travelled more than 125 kilometres, crossing from Ethiopia to reach Mudug Regional Hospital in Galkayo North. It was the nearest facility equipped for such...
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Yemen: MSF hands over the mother and child hospital in Taiz Houban after a decade of lifesaving care
September 1, 2025Taiz Houban, Yemen- Since 2015, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has operated the mother and child hospital in Al-Houban, Taiz governorate — one of the few facilities providing free, high-quality healthcare in a region deeply affected by more than a...
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Somalia: Funding gaps and barriers to access undermine healthcare for women and children
August 12, 2025When Aisha* began haemorrhaging, experiencing heavy, potentially life-threatening bleeding, just ten days after giving birth to twins at home in Diinsoor district, her family feared the worst. The hospital where she had safely delivered her previous children was no longer...
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World Breastfeeding Week: Nurturing hope amid migration challenges in Latin America
August 4, 2025“I’ve breastfed him throughout the entire migration route,” says María*, a 34-year-old Venezuelan mother traveling with her two children. Their journey began in Peru, where her youngest son was born two years ago, and continued through Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa...
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Syria: Obstacles to maternity care shatter women’s hopes for a safe pregnancy
November 12, 2024The 13-year-long war in Syria, the earthquake in February 2023 and the lack of international support to rebuild healthcare infrastructure have deprived pregnant women and new mothers of their most fundamental right of access to adequate and dignified maternity care,...
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Pakistan: MSF’s mother and child healthcare services in Balochistan – A lifeline for families
October 3, 2024"Eight of my nine children were born here, and my daughter-in-law delivered her five children in this very hospital. It’s part of who we are," says Zarlast, her eyes gleaming with pride as she sits beside her daughter-in-law Zarnasha, both...
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To eat or feed my child? A mother’s dilemma in Yemen
March 21, 2024Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expresses profound concern over the alarming rise in malnutrition cases among mothers in Yemen over the past two years. The situation reflects the dire humanitarian crisis facing the country, exacerbated by protracted conflict, economic instability, and...
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