Pakistan: Concern over planned deportation of Afghan refugees
April 4, 2025Pakistan- Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) once again expresses deep concern for approximately 900,000 Afghan Citizen Card holders facing deportation from Pakistan. Vulnerable groups, including women, children, and those with disabilities, are disproportionately impacted by such deportations. Women and girls face especially...
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Pakistan: Mafeefa Naveed’s TB journey
April 1, 2025Gujranwala, Pakistan- In the soft light of a Gujranwala morning, 17‐year‐old Mafeefa Naveed stands at her family’s doorstep, a quiet smile illuminating her face as she greets another day. Today, a first-year college student with dreams of studying law, Mafeefa...
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Pakistan: MSF’s TACTiC initiative ushers in hope on World TB Day
March 24, 2025Islamabad: As the world observes World Tuberculosis Day under the theme “Yes! We Can End TB: Commit, Invest, Deliver,” Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) urges governments and international donors to prioritize sustained investments in diagnosing, treating, and preventing tuberculosis...
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Pakistan: MSF concludes hepatitis C care in Karachi, having treated over 9000 people
January 29, 2025Karachi: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today announced the closure of its long-running hepatitis C project in Karachi, bringing to an end nine years of free, lifesaving treatment in one of Pakistan’s most underserved urban communities.A new report, “The fight against...
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MSF concerned over deportations of Afghans from Pakistan
April 19, 2024In the wake of the recent announcement by the Pakistani authorities that ‘Phase Two’ of the ‘repatriation plan’ of Afghans in the country will begin after Eid (15 April), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned for the rights and...
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Patient Stories: Ensuring recovery through timely, accurate drug-resistant tuberculosis testing
March 18, 2024Ahmad, 11, from Tatlay Aali, a town in Gujranwala district, Pakistan, was diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) when he was just five years old. "We’d never heard about this disease, nobody from our family ever had it. At the same time,...
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After sixteen years, MSF hands over emergency services in Chaman, Balochistan
January 30, 2024After sixteen years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is handing over its emergency room (ER) services at the district Headquarters (DHQ) hospital to the medical authorities in Chaman, a town 130 kilometers north of Quetta, on the border between...
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The stigma of survival: Niamat Ulla’s journey through cutaneous leishmaniasis and beyond
January 30, 2024Niamat Ulla, 39, is originally from Chaman, a mountainous area in Balochistan bordering Afghanistan. Eight years ago, after violence broke out in his hometown, he was forced to leave and move to Quetta together with his wife, three sons, and...
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A journey to healing: Muhammad Usman’s battle with cutaneous leishmaniasis
January 30, 2024Muhammad Usman, 27, is from Lahore, a city that does not normally have high rates of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL). However, after travelling to Multan in July 2023, where leishmaniasis (CL) is more common, nodules started appearing on his face. Usman...
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Skin disfiguring neglected disease surging in Pakistan: Cutaneous leishmaniasis(CL)
January 29, 2024Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is concerned by an increase in the number of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) cases registered at its facilities across Pakistan. Balochistan and Kyber Pakhtunkhwa are the worst affected provinces, but this treatable neglected tropical disease,...
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Pakistan: The heartbreaking link between maternal and child malnutrition
September 14, 2023Last year, scorching heat waves broke records across South Asia, with temperatures surpassing 50° in March and April. The unusually violent monsoon that followed triggered floods that killed over 1.700 people in Pakistan and ravaged communities. After the devastating weather...
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis medical care in Pakistan: Patient stories
January 19, 2023Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a skin infection caused by a parasite transmitted by the bite of a phlebotomine sandfly. It is common in Pakistan, particularly amongst poor, both urban and rural populations in Balochistan and Khyber Paktunkhwa provinces. The disease is...
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